Corporate clichés are like the self-help books that spawn them: a dime a dozen (get it?).

"Thinking outside of the box" remains one of the more road-weary of the bunch, guiding self-important suits for decades, like some kind of Bret Easton Ellis novel.

I'm no Robert Bateman, but I've always respected at least the notion behind that one. I've never been much of a conventional thinker – or anything else for that matter –  so a small CNN story last week gave me pause.

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