The Turunn Tribune Digest

Going forward, this site--The Turunn Tribune Digest--will contain a digestible version of the more intellectually-stretching broadsheet edition. It will be an "Editor's Pick" chosen by me and the talented journalists here at The Tribune. Today, we would like to feature our partners at HBR who have recently published two top management tips for budding executives worldwide.

Tip #1: Execute Your Deliverables

In this piece we analyze the word “improvement” itself. Its etymological roots lie in the Swedish word üntlagneschafftunhulm meaning “rotten Norse Warrior”, combined with the Latin improre “to meet”. So it’s literally “meeting a rotten Norseman”. Through insightful thought-leadership, HBR will guide you and the Norseman safely back to the leadership longboat, showing you how to bravely execute all your deliverables and rape and pillage the village of career stagnation with impunity!

Tip #2: A New Twist on “In a Prior Life”

Here, our experts at HBR encourage the creative use of language by taking an favorite executive aphorism and re-purposing it, breathing new life into a cliche to make it sound impactful and resonant. “In a prior life…” is usually a lead-in to a desperately dull story you have already heard multiple times about what the leader did in a previous role, usually at a previous employer, and usually using a system that is even more outdated than the ones they impose on the company in their current role. We advise students to use this phrase with a twist: use it to mean literally what you did in a prior cycle of karmic rebirth before you transmigrated into your current physical manifestation. For example:

“In a prior life…I was an Oxpecker bird living on the back of a very bad-tempered rhinoceros in central Africa during the early years of the first century. I learned that to get the juicy parasites buried in the hippo’s skin sometimes I had to whistle a sweet melody to calm the animal and then strike swiftly to excise the tasty prey. I think we should use the same tactic to leverage this IPO….” 

We hope you find this useful and will enjoy future editions of The Turunn Tribune Digest!

Jaghen!

- Bjorn