Follow Up
RANDOM LINGO
Rubber Stamp Exercise
(1). The act of blindly approving things at work, some of which may actually be important and should really be looked over before you sign it.
“Well, if this is just going to be some kind of rubber stamp exercise, why can’t we just buy an actual rubber stamp? My wrist is killing me!”
No Names Discussion
(1). A call to a competitor or client by a consultant without disclosing who they are working for (and usually pretending to be a prospect) in order to get some information out of them about their business or operations.
“So, we had a no names discussion with the folks at IBM, as you requested…turns out they make computers. It’ll all be in our final report…”