Define: "Cross-Pollination" in Business
High risk of unnecessary meetings
"Sit in the back, nod thoughtfully, and execute your firewall policy updates via command line on your laptop."
The sharing of ideas, knowledge, or processes between different departments to encourage innovation.
What does "Cross-Pollination" actually mean?
"Forcing deeply introverted engineers to sit in a room with the marketing team and pretend to care about brand synergySynergyTwo underperforming departments being mashed together so a VP can justify their annual bonus.."
"We are organizing a cross-pollination seminar to break down departmental silos."
"I lost three hours of my life today in a cross-pollination workshop trying to explain subnetting to a graphic designer."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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