Chapter 6: My Love Language Is XLOOKUP
I don’t need words of affirmation.
I need you to stop using VLOOKUP, stop merging cells, and stop emailing screenshots of Excel.
That’s romance.
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Chapter 5: Leveraging Synergies Since Nobody Knows What That Means
At some point I stopped asking what “leveraging synergies” actually meant. It became the corporate equivalent of seasoning. Sprinkle it into every meeting, every PowerPoint, every strategy document, and suddenly everyone nods like we’ve unlocked a secret level of business.
To this day, I’m convinced “synergy” is just what happens when five departments create three new problems and call it collaboration.
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Chapters in My Corporate Autobiography
Chapter 4: Creating Value Through Additional Meetings
Somewhere someone looked at a full calendar and thought. You know what would create even more value? Another meeting. I’m still waiting to find the value.
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Corporate Autobiography Chapter 2: “Leveraging Synergies Until Morale Is Non-Operational.”
Somewhere along the way, working together turned into seventeen meetings, three action items, and one person saying, “Let’s put a pin in that.”
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