When does a strategy become a stragedy?

About 15 mins into a meeting if you work where I do....

I was sitting in a meeting yesterday listening to the buzzword king go on and on about setting a strategic course for the direction of the rest of the year activities. In 7 minutes the word strategy was mentioned 9 times and throughout the entire 60 mins he kept stressing that he wanted to keep the discussion focused on strategy and not about tactics - then he proceeded to get into the proverbial weeds.

It was at this point that the whole meeting devolved into a stragedy. Thanks for word Chris.

Between the low hanging fruit and being really determined to focus on strategy and not tactics I managed to write down at least 34 words that I could use to create a new meeting game that I'm planning on introducing tomorrow - buzzword bingo.

During one of his four soliloquies, I started surfing the web and came across a site that tells you how to create a bingo card from overused buzzwords. According to the site

Buzzword Bingo is a fun game to play during meetings at work (but don't blame anyone but yourself if you get fired). Each member of the team takes one card into the meeting, and discretely ticks whatever words on his card that your boss says during the meeting. Whenever a player achieves the agreed upon bingo (such as a line of 5, or two overlapping lines of 5), depending on how brave he is, and whether he wishes to keep his job, he can either stand up and yell "BINGO!" or give a more subtle pre-agreed signal to the other players.

Buzzword Bingo is of course popular for those working with software and computers, but there's nothing to stop you playing the game in other industries that are full of jargon... Although, if you do work in the nuclear-power or aviation industries, perhaps it might be better to forego the game, and actually listen to the meeting.

Advanced Rules: Most meetings involve a two way conversation with the boss. Skilled players, will steer the boss towards saying the right target words. In the "Advanced Rules" version, this is encouraged, but you may only claim words that you have not said yourself during the meeting. Thus the challenge becomes (1) to get your boss to say "Erlang" without saying it yourself, and (2) to survive the meeting without saying too many buzzwords and killing your chances. In this variant, you can also manoeuvre your co-workers into saying the buzzwords and reducing their chances of winning.

I downloaded the instructions and we are SOOO playing this tomorrow and I'm determined to be the first one to yell BINGO!!!!!!!!!!