"Due to strategic management planning at the highest level," said Jake, "we are facing an urgent need to leverage the measurable parameters of our discourse here significantly." He paused for a moment to adjust the flow chart.

"We need to evolve from a push process, in which most content production is propelled by the previous stages of production, toward a pull process."

He cast a significant look at his audience as he uttered the word 'pull' and made invisible quotation marks in the air. He took the blank silence that followed as approval and went on.

"To clarify the dimensions of this: In a pull process, substantiation is produced by the need for a visible presentation of concepts spontaneously generated in the context of the cerebral matter of the participants. I sincerely hope we are able to recalibrate our motivating factors in order to facilitate the implementation of this essential goal. If we fail in this, we are in danger of alienating a significant faction of our...."

A loud crash came from the back of the room as Jack the Shit, lowest man on the company board of directors totem pole, fell off his chair, sprawled on the floor, and quickly scrambled to his feet, adjusting his tie wildly. He looked around in a guilty fashion..."Umm...sorry! I must have drifted off..."

"Of....our...constituency!" concluded Jake, frowning severely at Jack the Shit.

"Are there any questions?"