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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>management</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="man-page.html" title="man page"/><link rel="next" href="mandelbug.html" title="mandelbug"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">management</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="man-page.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mandelbug.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="management"/><dt xmlns="" id="management"><b>management</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. Corporate power elites distinguished primarily by their distance
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from actual productive work and their chronic failure to manage (see also
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<a href="../S/suit.html"><i class="glossterm">suit</i></a>). Spoken derisively, as in
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“<span class="quote"><span class="emphasis"><em>Management</em></span> decided that ...</span>”.
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</p></dd><dd><p> 2. Mythically, a vast bureaucracy responsible for all the world's
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minor irritations. Hackers' satirical public notices are often signed
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‘The Mgt’; this derives from the
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<i class="citetitle">Illuminatus</i> novels (see the <a href="../pt03.html#bibliography" title="Bibliography">Bibliography</a> in Appendix C).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="man-page.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mandelbug.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">man page </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> mandelbug</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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