What does the term “professional behaviour” really mean? A phrase that is now omnipresent in corporate and management speak seems to have many different meanings to different people. So, in order to remove any doubt about what constitutes “a professional” in terms of “behaviour, here are some clues....
You know you're
a professional when...
You ask the waiter what the
restaurant's core competencies are.
You decide to re-org your family into a
"team-based organization."
You refer to dating as test marketing.
You can spell "paradigm."
You actually know what a paradigm is.
You understand your airline's fare
structure.
You write executive summaries on your
love letters.
You think that it's actually efficient
to write a ten page paper with six other people you don't know.
You believe you never have any problems
in your life, just "issues" and "improvement
opportunities."
You know every single piece of clip art
in PowerPoint.
You calculate your own personal cost of
capital.
You explain to your bank manager that
you prefer to think of yourself as "highly leveraged" as
opposed to "in debt."
You can explain to somebody the
difference between "re-engineering," "down-sizing,"
"right-sizing," and "firing people."
You actually believe your explanation
in number 13.
You refer to your previous life as
"my sunk cost."
Your three meals a day are a morning
consumption function, a noontime consumption function, and an evening
consumption function.
You refer to your significant other as
"my co-CEO."
Your favourite stories begin "Bob
Jones, VP of marketing, sat at his desk and stared out his
window..."
You start to feel sorry for Dilbert's
boss.
You believe the best tables and graphs
take an hour to comprehend.
You refer to divorce as
"divestiture."
Your favourite artist is the one who
does the dot drawings for the Wall Street Journal.
None of your favourite publications
have cartoons.
You account for your tuition as a
capital expenditure instead of an expense.
You insist that you do some more market
research before you and your spouse produce another child.
At your last family reunion, you wanted
to have an emergency meeting about their brand equity.
You've decided the only way to afford a
house is to call your fellow alumni and offer to name a room after them,
if they'll help with the down payment.
Your "deliverable" for Sunday
evening is clean laundry and paid bills.
You use the term
"value-added" without falling down laughing.
You ask the car salesman if the car
comes with a whiteboard and Internet connection.
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