Mike
Asking inconvenient questions like “What problem are we trying to solve?”
The pragmatic voice of reason who keeps the project mostly on track despite Fustercluck’s best efforts to derail it.

Strategic alignment · Meeting creation · Scope expansion · Synergy · Taking credit
“If the project isn’t complicated enough to require me, we haven’t added enough process.”
Fustercluck is a highly confident management consultant with an extraordinary ability to identify solutions to problems nobody knew they had. Armed with corporate jargon, PowerPoint, and an unwavering belief that every project needs additional governance, he specializes in turning straightforward work into strategic initiatives.
Asking inconvenient questions like “What problem are we trying to solve?”
The pragmatic voice of reason who keeps the project mostly on track despite Fustercluck’s best efforts to derail it.
Polite but pointed reality checks — and an amazing supply of patience.
Jennifer asks the tough questions, calls out the nonsense, and somehow remains professional through it all.
Enthusiasm, positive thinking, and occasionally making things more complicated.
Sinclair always has a new idea, a new process, or a new spreadsheet. His optimism is matched only by his ability to create work.
Surviving the next strategic initiative.
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