Define: "Chalk and Cheese" in Business
High risk of unnecessary meetings
"Write a single rollback command in Notepad, decline the mandatory sync call, and let the resulting broadcast storm prove your point."
Used to describe two things that are fundamentally different or incompatible.
What does "Chalk and Cheese" actually mean?
"The polite British way to say your Next-Gen firewall and legacy switches fundamentally despise each other."
"The two departments' operating styles are like chalk and cheese."
"Trying to integrate the legacy core with the new Cisco SDA fabric is like chalk and cheese."
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18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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