Written back when I dwelt in corporate trenches.
Business Poetry 101
Listen,
We strategists need trends,
Data telling us where we stand.
Then you'll require our touch.
Without pictures, we're flying blind.
We cannot simply adhere to "The
Way We Did It Before"—that's
Corporate death, corporate
Deafness.
Right
Equals a certain point in
Space and Time. Standing
In place, in Space, without
Consideration of Time
Will make us
Wrong.
Therefore
We're desperate! Quick! Give
Us data, our picture for
Where Everything's At,
So we can tell you
Where Everything's Going.
Wherefore...
That's why we're bugging you.
If we can get that,
Our Archimedean Place To Stand
Will have arrived, and
We will move the world.
I got stressed out just reading that, the urgency to stay on top with predictions because staying still means certain failure. I bet you are glad that’s not your daily life anymore.