a new broom sweeps clean »
New management will often make radical changes.
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balancing act »
An effort to manage many conflicting or competing items or interests.
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bench jockey »
A baseball term for a player, coach or manager who is annoying and distracts opposition players and umpires from his team's dugout bench with verbal repartee.
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do without »
To manage despite the lack of something.
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drink from a firehose »
To take a small amount from an enormous, hard-to-manage quantity.
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get by »
To subsist; to succeed, survive, or manage, at least at a minimum level.
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hold down »
To continue, to hold and to manage well.
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keep up with »
To manage to remain beside or just behind that is moving away from one.
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keep up with »
To manage to follow .
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managerial inbreeding »
Bad management, caused by managers making poor selection choices in recruitment, rewards, and promotions of the staff that report to them, leading to another generation of managers who lack the necessary skill sets to reward and promote the most effective staff.
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noarch »
Short for "no architecture". It is a term used mainly in package management systems to mark packages which are architecture independent. Such packages usually contain graphics, documentation or similar data that can be used on any architecture.
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on board »
It's a good idea, but let's see if we can get a few more of the management team on board.
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run into the ground »
To mismanage to the point of ruin.
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scissorbill »
And railroad term for someone who refused to join the union or who openly colluded with management to thwart the union.
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scrape through »
To marginally manage to progress.
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