Purpose Supporting Cliche
Purpose Supporting ClicheI find myself listening to PurposeSupportingCliches in meetings regularly. If someone wants to adopt an IndustryStandard, the counter is NotInventedHere. If someone wants to adopt a new gimmick (IfItsNewItMustBeBetter), then the counter is NotWidelyAcceptedPractice. And so on. Occasionally (just occasionally) one of these discussions will actually get into the merits of a product/methodology/etc. and something useful will happen. The ClicheDrivenArguments? pretty much go nowhere.
For a defense - see TriteSayingsComeInPairs
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