Like a Zombie

The past couple of weeks at work have been the most stressful in recent times ... with lot of urgent and important work coming together at the same time (and that urgent and important sure sounds like Covey's four-quadrant matrix thing). I lost track of days, dates and time .. so much so that today I was almost convinced that 11th May was yesterday and not a week ago! Missed (and mixed up the dates of) the play I had been so looking forward to for months. My almost regular workout in the gym feels like a distant event in past life. The newspapers are piling up unread. I haven't contributed a thing for an upcoming big family event. I have been looking and feeling like a zombie for a while now.

The good thing is ... hopefully it is over now and tomorrow is another day!

Picture courtesy: www.activerain.com

Can someone tell me...

How spending long hours at work (not necessarily working but being inside office premises) translates into customer delight?

Or how not being allowed to carry forward your leaves from one year to the next ensures a work-life balance?

Or having limiting parking space for vehicles at workplace contributes towards a green cause?

Or how mugging up some technology fundas that have no connection whatsoever to the actual work you do (but helps you pass a test) makes you a competency champion?

Words .. words .. words

Some of the words and phrases used at work so often but hardly make any sense. Every time I hear them I cringe; sometimes even visibly so

• Bring value to the table
• Ideate/innovate
• Actionize
• Thought Leadership
• Take bottomline responsibility
• Paradigm
• Operationalize/Strategize
• Business processes
• Key initiative
• Competitive edge
• Stakeholder management
• Perception management
• Normalize/ Rationalize
• Profitability
• Leverage
• Collaborate

I am sure there is more to this list .. will add when I remember