1 June 2015

• Tacit: Understood without being openly expressed; implied
• Even the most avowedly open-minded organizations place tacit constraints on what can be said or even thought. (CMR) 
• Such tacit benevolence out not continue, however. (HBR)
• Bereft: Deprived
• Universities have been bereft of performance improvements. (CMR) 
• Unobtrusive: Not obtrusive; inconspicuous; unassertive; reticent
• Unobtrusive, the couple lived the couple lived quietly in an apartment on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, enjoyed high-society life and vacationed in Europe. (Clarke Simmons)  
• Exacting: Rigid or severe in demands or requirements 
• Henry Leland, the exacting patriarch of Cadillac and later Lincoln, mentored Sloan on quality control. (Clarke Simmons) 
• Behemoth: Any creature or thing of monstrous size or power 
• Sloan systematically organized a chaotic early GM into a smooth-running, industrial behemoth  of such scope and profit that it was seen as a proxy for American economic might at large. (Clarke Simmons) 
• Metrics: A standard for measuring or evaluating something, especially one that uses figure or statistics
• Corporations define sustainability for themselves in the absence of standards, and it may be years before widely accepted metrics emerge.  (Don Schjeldahl)  
• Deride: To laugh at in scorn or contempt; scoff or jeer at; mock.
• Deriding choice, Ford offered basic transportation with his "universal car" at ever lower prices. (Clarke Simmons)
• Nebulous: Hazy; vague; indistinct; or confused 
• Strategic decision making is difficult because the problems that firms confront are nebulous. (Ram Shivakumar)
• Abstract: Reticent: Reluctant; or restrained 
• However, this position abstracts from various sources of imperfection that destruct market systems from maximizing social welfare; that is, from achieving the highest possible level of well-being in society. (Werner Hediger) 
• Heuristic: Serving to indicate or point out; stimulating interest as a means of further investigation; encouraging a person to learn, discover, understand or solve problems on his or her own, as by experimenting; evaluating possible answers or solutions, or by trial and error 
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• Dyadic: Of or consisting of a dyad; being a group of two 
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