
"Weird Al" Yankovic - Mission Statement (Official 4K Video)
About this video
Weird Al's whiteboard-animated music video parodying corporate buzzword culture, from the album Mandatory Fun. The lyrics are packed with business jargon.
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Mostly posted as a joke in threads about corporate-speak, buzzwords and meeting culture.
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From the Hacker News discussion
I'm surprised the corporate culture parody song Mission Statement didn't come up. Every person who's ever been in a corporation should watch. [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗> Instead, I heard the Ford Motor Company described as a “mobility solutions provider” that engages in “multimodal journey planning.” People spoke about “whiteboarding” and “blue-skying” big ideas. I watched a video that described Ford’s efforts to build a “holistic, organic, interconnected system powered by a transportation operating system.” "Weird Al" Yankovic - Mission Statement: [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗- Cognitive - Solutioning - Learning as a noun, as in "these are some good learnings" - Most things mentioned in Weird Al's brilliant lampoon of Judy Blue Eyes using corporate-speak: [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗Oh my god, I did not know that Poe's law applied to corporate marketing now. I could not distinguish this from a parody song like Weird Al Yankovic's - "Mission Statement" [1] [1] [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗Now I want to try this. I'll start my brainstorming session by watching this: [VIDEO] I can make my website here: [LINK] Now, what am I missing?
Read original comment ↗[VIDEO] (Weird Al Yankovic: Mission Statement) First verse: We must all efficiently Operationalize our strategies Invest in world-class technology And leverage our core competencies
Read original comment ↗If you train an AI on enough Teams meetings, it will probably eventually generate the lyrics to "Mission Statement": [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗Good idea for a unit test for this: if you put the lyrics to "Weird Al" Yankovic's Mission Statement in, it should return the exact same text as output. [VIDEO]
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