Idiom
air sandwich
Meaning
A strategy that has high-level direction and low-level operations, but little in the middle.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The project is just an air sandwich with no real plan.”
“The manager gave us a grand vision, but the project remains an air sandwich because we lack the middle management to execute it.”
“While the executive team articulated a bold strategy, the operational void rendered the entire initiative an air sandwich, leaving the staff without the necessary guidance to achieve the stated goals.”
Examples
simple
“The project is just an air sandwich with no real plan.”
contextual
“The manager gave us a grand vision, but the project remains an air sandwich because we lack the middle management to execute it.”
complex
“While the executive team articulated a bold strategy, the operational void rendered the entire initiative an air sandwich, leaving the staff without the necessary guidance to achieve the stated goals.”
Origin
(business strategy): Coined by Nilofer Merchant.
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