#69 Mission Briefing

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Your mission — and you don’t have any choice about accepting it — is to go under deep cover and penetrate one of the most ruthless, politically charged environments in the world today … a typical American Business Office. Should you succeed in infiltrating this complex and frequently chaotic organization, your objective is to accomplish actual work. Be aware that many other agents have attempted this mission and failed.

As part of your cover, we will arrange a vocabulary coach to teach you important business terms such as debenture, venture capital, monetization, potential actualization, actualized potential, next-level thinking, thinking outside of the box, and proactive, forward-thinking, next-level, bleeding-edge actualization strategic productization.

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By way of homage to an extraodinarily talented writer, I played with Robert A. Heinlein’s concept about the IQ of a committee. If you’d like to know more about Mr. Heinlein, check out his Wikipedia entry at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein

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