Om de maandag wat op te vrolijken. Of misschien om je over het randje te duwen…

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko51FK1sYMc

“And now for something a little bit special. This is an award for Company Song So Awful I Was Positive It Was a Spoof. The outstanding winner in this category is Shell. Its song is called “Growing and Winning” and is set to “We Are the World”. “We have moved on, growing day by day/Sharing strengths, we practise what is best/We are all a part of Shell’s global family/Doing work aligned with everyone.” It is a haunting mixture of pyschobabble, sentimentality and business jargon. Have a listen yourself. You won’t be disappointed. The song came from a team-building course in Asia, and is causing Shell’s more buttoned-up executives in Europe to cringe as it gets e-mailed across the world to mass merriment. This is the curse of global communications: if you allow people in your company to express themselves freely you risk becoming the internet’s next big laughing stock.” -lucy kellayway (financial times, dec 12 2006)