via Herding Cats http://herdingcats.typepad.com/my_weblog/2012/09/you-know-youve-been-a-program-too-long-when-.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FHerdingCats+%28Herding+Cats%29:
- You insist that you do some more
market research before you and your spouse produce another
child. - You ask the waiter what the
restaurant’s core competencies are. - You decide to reorganize your
family into a “team-based organization.” - You believe you never have any
problems in your life, just “issues” and “improvement opportunities.” - You write executive summaries on your love letters.
- Your Valentine’s Day cards have
bullet points - You celebrate your wedding anniversary by conducting a performance review.
- 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,” “downsizing,”
“rightsizing,” and “firing people.”. - You refer to dating as test
marketing.
From PEO/SYSCOM Commanders Conference, November 1-2, 2011.