The Office Jester… every office needs one to see the light side of disrupting innovation in marketing In corporate lingo, ‘disruptive innovation’ is one of those phrases that are very much in trend today. Wikipedia defines disruptive innovation as “an innovation that creates a new market and value network and eventually disrupts an existing market and value network, displacing established market leaders and alliances”. Disruptive innovation can arrive into the world through any number of ... Keep Reading
The Office Jester: Office Introductions
The Office Jester… every office needs one to take over office introductions Disclaimer: this post will only be vaguely related to office, work, career, and professions by the use of the instrument of lateral thinking. Okay, now that that’s out of the way, we can proceed with what we hope will be a post that we enjoy writing. We’re going to make this one revolve around a clip from “A Bit of Fry & Laurie”. Unless you’re on the other side of sixty, which we are not (we’re just connoisseurs ... Keep Reading
The Office Jester: Annoying Colleagues
The Office Jester… every office needs one to balance annoying colleagues Moby clearly never worked in an office in his life if he thinks that we’re all made of stars. Alright, we stretched that one a little beyond the realms of reality because the song means something else entirely. However, the point remains. If you’ve worked in an office with colleagues then you know that there’s no individual who hasn’t experienced the pain that annoying colleagues can cause. You know, we all take annoying ... Keep Reading
The Office Jester: Undercover Boss
The Office Jester… every office needs one to welcome the undercover boss There countless stories in multiple cultures about ancient or medieval kings who would climb down from their pedestals to mingle with their subjects in disguise. The logic was that doing this allowed those kings to stay in touch with their people, their needs, and their problems. The principle behind the show Undercover Boss is supposedly the same. In the show, the boss decides to work as just another employee to learn ... Keep Reading
The Office Jester: Fun at Work
The Office Jester… every office needs one to lead the fun at work Allow us the latitude to be clichéd once in a while. There is an old world charm in using phrases, idioms, metaphors, and similes that are commonly known. However, instead of being clichéd in all our posts, we’ll just combine all our cliché quota into one post, which as you’ve no doubt figured out by now is this one. This will be something like The One aka Neo – all the anomalies (clichés) will be combined into one unit (this ... Keep Reading
The Office Jester: Safety at Workplace
The Office Jester… every office needs one to laugh when people ignore safety at workplace Safety at workplace is a very serious subject. No doubt, you’ve been shown numerous training videos or made to attend, grumblingly we might add, meetings focused around the subject. While businesses force safety at workplace principles down their employees’ throats for their own selfish reasons (liability, liability, and liability), employees can benefit from them too. Most training videos revolving ... Keep Reading
The Office Jester: Office Stereotypes
The Office Jester… every office needs one to make fun of all office stereotypes The world is full of stereotypes, isn’t it? And, nowhere is it more prominent than at the workplace. Stereotyping is a subtle, subtle thing. No one is immune to it. Not psychologists. Not journalists. Not even family. Everyone does it. The only difference is that different people do it to different degrees. Stereotyping is more prominent with strangers and unless you’ve been at your current workplace for an ... Keep Reading
The Office Jester: Epic April Fool’s Day Office Pranks
The Office Jester… every office needs one to come up with epic April Fool’s Day office pranks The first week of April has gone by. Those of you who went through it without incident must be congratulating yourself. If it was up to me, nobody would go through the first week of April without a prank being pulled on them – just ask my colleagues, my wife, my dog, and anyone else unfortunate enough to come into my crosshairs. I know it’s childish but I believe it’s good to be childish for 7 of 365 ... Keep Reading
The Office Jester: Office Sarcasm
The Office Jester… every office needs one to make sense of office sarcasm The greatest comedians in the history of mankind will tell you that there’s very little difference between comedy and tragedy. This is precisely why humour is often based around someone else’s misfortune. In fact, the only difference between humour and cynicism is that of perspective. In fact, there are many examples of this minor divide. Consider people who laugh when they see someone slipping on the floor. Consider ... Keep Reading
The Office Jester: Management Lingo
The Office Jester… every office needs one to ruin management lingo royally Yes, yes, we know. We did Office Jester with Office Jargon last time out. And, yes we know that there isn't a lot of difference between office jargon and management lingo except for the fact that the former is used formally (see what we did there?) while the latter is used casually (sorry we couldn’t come up with anything minutely funny this time…when have we ever, right?). Every office has dumbasses that can't catch ... Keep Reading