herd management

When a person is trying to keep a large number of lovers or potential lovers in contact. Oftentimes by making a quick text throughout the day possibly a generic text that can be copied and pasted to multiple people. The person usually overreaches their span of control and becomes overwhelmed. In the animal kingdom this would be similar to a buck trying to control a large number of doe hence “herd management “
Every morning I get up I gotta do herd management by sending out a text to my girls.
by Shade tree May 23, 2019
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An old, time-honored management technique in large corporations.

1. Keep your employees in the dark.
2. Feed them shit.
3. When they grow up, cut them off at the roots.
The CEO of XYZ Corp is a big believer in the mushroom theory of management.
by Hot Licks July 21, 2020
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Goodwin Management

An AI chatbot that HOAs hire to just tell you to “no” or to fill out forms.
I tried to reason with them but got the Goodwin Management instead.
by oondada July 15, 2021
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design management

Bullshit study made to exploit naïve, hipster retards.
I'm a design management student.
by DMI Student February 18, 2014
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(Manager) ate it

Phrase used when something important can't be found because that one manager who always sticks things in random places was the last one to use it.
"Where's the box cutter?"
"(Manager) ate it"
by Portalmaker April 11, 2022
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GLM - Gay Lord Manager

The Gay Lord Manager Is one of a kind in a Gay structured pyramid system.
Karen :" I want to talk with the GLM! let me talk with the Gay Lord Manager NOW!"
GLM - Gay Lord Manager
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mushroom management

A way to manage tech teams working to an ill-defined task, described by Tracy Kidder as "Keep them in the dark, feed them shit, watch them grow" (in his 1981 title 'The Soul of a New Machine' about the people that built the first minicomputer at Data General).
As long as the outcome remains undefined, there's no way to hold them accountable for whichever result. You'd better apply mushroom management instead.
by Nada Knicks August 05, 2022
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