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.
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design management

Bullshit study made to exploit naïve, hipster retards.
I'm a design management student.
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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"
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GLM - Gay Lord Manager

The Gay Lord Manager Is one of a kind in a Gay structured pyramid system.
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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.
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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.
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Management Tunnel Vision

When someone of a higher power/management decides to act on impulse regardless of how anyone else feels or has concerns about, in other words they dont give a flying fuck and only care bout their status.
I hate when my managers dont listen to what i have to say, its like they have management tunnel vision.
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