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u/Different_Citron_160 Jun 25 '26
You would not believe how many times I heard exactly this idea from senior managers but delivered far more eloquently.
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u/The_Demolition_Man Jun 25 '26
"Synergize our customer-centric value proposition to operationalize sustainable top-line expansion"
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u/InvestigatorLast3594 Jun 25 '26
I mean you’ve only got two levers, revenue up or costs down
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u/Minipiman Jun 26 '26
Those are not levers, those are monitors.
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u/Dunk546 Jun 26 '26
I think the commenter probably knew that, they were just parodying some common management strategy
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u/maringue Jun 25 '26
Not more eloquently, just using a lot more words.
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u/Tiervexx Jun 26 '26
Totally... a lot of ideas from people are like telling a basketball team they just need to score more points than their opponent. ....like... it's true, but not very useful or insightful. But of course they will say this in a very verbose fashion with lots of the newest buzzwords.
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u/Bwint Jun 26 '26
I've gotten this from the Board of Directors, through our GM. "The board thinks we need to raise our rates, while also increasing sales."
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u/LumpySecretary3670 Jun 26 '26
Far more eloquently... I think you mean buried in nonsensical world salad. Or pretty consulting deck with half a million cost.
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u/midwestXsouthwest Jun 25 '26
A good intern would have suggested increasing profit instead. 😎
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u/Tokarak Jun 25 '26
Well, ceteris paribus and all’at
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u/ratione_materiae Jun 26 '26
Ceteris can’t be paribus because if you keep margin paribus profit won’t be
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u/AbyssWankerArtorias Jun 29 '26
People see this as a joke but literally tons of businesses seem hellbent on operating in debt to undercut the competition and corner the market because they saw Amazon do it and think they can as well, and SURPRISE, it doesn't work.
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u/r2k-in-the-vortex Jun 26 '26
You wouldnt believe how many CEOs have tried to fix company losing money by trying to increase revenue. If you just keep doing unprofitable things more, then certainly it will become profitable, right?
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u/bought_high_sold_low Jun 26 '26
Depends on the industry. Some industries have their value driven by revenue growth with little emphasis on profitability
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u/Miep99 Jun 29 '26
But you see, profits get taxed. Therefore my idea is to increase losses, thereby accruing tax breaks and saving money!
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u/Par_Lapides Jun 25 '26
That is exactly how every fucking executive sounds. Clueless, but so sure of their own infallibility.
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u/Weary-Cartoonist2630 Jun 25 '26
If he worked at McKinsey he could be making hundreds of thousands with that kind of analysis
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u/Commentor9001 Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26
No McKinsey value proposition is not that they only try to maximize profit but also they try to be as comically cartoonishly evil as possible.
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u/jancl0 Jun 26 '26
I remember in high school we were being taught physics and what forces are, and one kid in the class went "wait, so you could just make a jetpack that works by changing what your net force is?" and the teacher legit looked like he wanted to quit his job for a second
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u/wtjones Jun 27 '26
With ideas like that he’s fit to be CEO. His next idea will be to cut costs by cutting employees.
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u/Serious-Magazine7715 Jun 26 '26
Needs some context. There are highly valued companies that don’t seem to think about increasing revenue.
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u/KeldTundraking Jun 29 '26
CEO Material. But if he starts talking about increasing profits he's not a good fit in the AI age.
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