Is it just me, or are corporate memes the most stupid and inane things

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

ever perpetrated on mankind?

I thought the main reason to be in business was to make money. How simple is that?

Please share the latest stupidity from you company here.

[SouthernDem2004]

1. What is a memes? /nt

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

6. A saying... A marketing slogan to be repeated...

[rman]

7. "a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation," (wikipedia)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme

In casual use, the term meme often refers to any piece of information passed from one mind to another. This usage more closely resembles the analogy of "language as a virus"....


"Ideas have a life of their own"

The old saying "Ideas have a life of their own" clearly encapsulates the "meme about memes".


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[Tom Yossarian Joad]

9. Thanks! Said much more concisely than my definition.

[porphyrian]

2. Advertising is stupid.

However, it is a multi-million dollar business because it works on us. What does that say about us?

[CrispyQ]

3. "What does it say about us?"

Perhaps we are not the pinnacle of creation after all! lol

[rman]

8. it means mass-manipulation of society is very significant

but it only works well if the manipulated are not aware of the manipulation.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

4. My pet peeve is mission statements

Every company (and now every organization) has to have a vacuous mission statement. Every organization I've been involved in has wasted weeks quibbling about the creation or revision of a mission statement instead of actually doing something.

The Dilbert website has a mission statement generator:

http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/games/career/bin/ms.cgi

Look at the results and try to tell me you can tell the difference between them and real mission statements.

You can't. :evilgrin:

[devilgrrl]

5. Oh but that isn't enough...

they just have to be in someone's face because they can.

You can't win.