BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Empty Suit
- a corporate executive who dresses very smartly and follows all procedures exactly without actually contributing anything of significance to the company
Wiktionary Definition for: Empty Suit
- A person ineffective or incompetent in his/her position of authoriy. Derived from unfavorable observations that ineffective professionals are memorabe only for what they wear and not what they accomplish at the workplace. c. 1970
Additional Resources
- Empty Suits.
- "House Democrats yesterday filed suit against Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) accusing him of extortion and money laundering. The civil suit alleges the whip pressured contributors into donating to the GOP and then directed those funds to nonprofit political groups that do not disclose their donors...
- Research articles 2000-06-05
- Empty PR Exercises That Make Your Company Look Amateurish
- Does your company ever dilute its credibility with these types of very common lame-o announcements? Lame Partnership Initiatives -- When Google and IBM announce [even relatively mundane] joint initiatives (like today's announcement that they're partnering to "promote new software development methods" in research and academia), tier-1 business...
- Blog posts 2007-10-08
- Should He Lie About Sales Experience?
- A reader writes: I like nothing more than strategy, messaging, and marketing. In this capacity I have done some great things over the years -- including some big-ticket sales along the way. Problem is, none of it took place as a quota-carrying member of...
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- Newsmakers | Suit over Stapp-Kid Rock sex tape tossed
- The anonymous woman who is suing a vid distributor for invasion of privacy over the '99 Scott Stapp-Kid Rock sex tape - in which she insists she played the starring role among a gaggle of other so-called strippers (sure she's disgusted by the blue film, but it's only fair that...
- Research articles 2006-04-21
- Bank sues ex-operators of empty Detroit Marine Terminal; Port Authority searches for new tenant.(US Bank N.A.)
- Byline: Michael Strong The Detroit/Wayne County Port Authority is trying to find a company to operate the defunct Detroit Marine Terminal in Detroit, while U.S. Bank N.A. has sued the former operators to collect a $7 million bond debt. U.S. Bank...
- Research articles 2004-08-23
- You’re The People Whisperer
- Mary’s training a puppy. She’s taking the job very seriously and doing it well. Both of us think that we should have taken as disciplined an approach to managing people in our entrepreneurial days.The toughest thing for an entrepreneur to learn is that most people want to be led....
- Blog posts 2007-03-26
- Appliances that Suit Today's Home.(Whirlpool Corp.)(Brief Article)
- For the kitchens, Whirlpool [R] and its brands demonstrated the range of design options and technological innovations needed to make each Live/Work unit not just beautiful but truly functional. Whether a young urban professional or an empty-nester, t For the kitchens, Whirlpool [R] and its brands...
- Research articles 2001-04-01
- Derry, N.H., Widow Passes Up Payment, Presses Suit against United for Sept. 11.
- By Thanassis Cambanis, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 14--DERRY, N.H.--After her husband's body "rained down over New York City" on Sept. 11, as Ellen Mariani puts it, she didn't want to forget what happened. She placed a back-lit photograph of...
- Research articles 2002-05-14
- California Proposition Raises Controversy; Would Obstruct Class Actions.(Originated from San Jose Mercury News, Calif.)
- Mar. 18--In 1988, three investors led a class-action suit against Ramtek Inc. for fraudulently selling $11 million in convertible securities based on fake sales records. Investors were left empty-handed when the company stopped interest payments and deMar. 18--In 1988, three investors led a class-action suit against ...
- Research articles 1996-03-18
- Microsoft's SideKick/Pink problems blamed on dogfooding and sabotage
- By Daniel Eran DilgerPublished: 06:00 PM EST Additional insiders have stepped forward to shed more light into Microsoft's troubled acquisition of Danger, its beleaguered Pink Project, and what has become one of the most high profile Information Technology disasters in recent memory.The sources point to longstanding management issues, a culture...
- News items 2009-10-12
- Is "Dress For Success" Still Mandatory?
- Last week, in the post "Too Young to be Top Gun" I counseled a 23-year old CEO to find a style of dress that would both communicate his youth and energy and still look business-like. Some of the comments, however, strongly recommended the "Dress for Success" look:...
- Blog posts 2009-01-22
- From giant leap to big bang: Nasa prepares moon smashing satellite
- Nasa's attempt to smash two probes into the moon's surface could prove the presence of water and hint at a faster, cheaper future for space exploration As Britain tucks into its lunch on Friday, hundreds of scientists, engineers and astronomers on the other side of the planet will...
- News items 2009-10-07
- How to Schmooze Propellerheads
- Solution selling means working with engineers. At customer sites, the "propellerheads" influence buying decisions. In your firm, they're key resources to help you make a sale or keep a customer. Alas, most sales pros are utterly clueless when it comes to motivating engineers. And that can result in...
- Blog posts 2007-05-25
- Coronet Oak continued
- Three-decade-old Southern Command airlift operation thriving in new Caribbean home Tech. Sgt. Barry Shatter took off his sweat-soaked flight suit inside the empty C-130 Hercules and put on a pair of shorts and a tank top. The rest of the aircrew did the same. They have done this ritual many...
- Research articles 2001-09-01
- Kohl's bids for 4 stores in New York
- Kohl's Corp. reportedly wants to buy four empty department stores in shopping malls in the Rochester, N.Y., area. The Menomonee Falls-based retailer has offered to pay $18 million for the stores, which had been operated by McCurdy & Co., according to a Rochester newspaper. ...
- Research articles 1995-01-16
- Walk in space is cut short
- CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A riskier-than-usual spacewalk outside the international space station was cut short Thursday night because of a malfunction that left one of the two crewmen with a warm, damp suit. Russian cosmonaut Alexander Kaleri made it safely back inside despite the problem with his spacesuit....
- Research articles 2004-02-27
- Congress OKs stopgap government funding bill
- WASHINGTON -- Congress approved a short-term bill on Wednesday providing money for much of the federal government through early December after Republicans failed to win agreement to kill a disputed provision standing in the way of a bill that would fund most of the government. Meeting in a...
- Research articles 2004-11-25
- Florida man pays 17,000 dollars for full-page ad urging wife to return
- MIAMI AFP — A Florida man paid 17,000 dollars for a full-page newspaper ad imploring his wife to return, some two weeks after she had left him. "Life without you is empty and meaningless. Please, please call me," Larry urged Marianne in the Florida Times-Union ad, which uses only...
- Research articles 2005-01-26
- United boosts fares $5 to $10 each way
- WASHINGTON -- UAL Corp.'s United Airlines raised its domestic fares by $5 to $10 each way on Friday, a move expected to be matched by competitors as the industry battles to offset soaring fuel costs. JP Morgan airline analyst Jamie Baker said he anticipated United's rivals would follow...
- Research articles 2006-06-10
- Nightmare in Paris; Al-Qaeda in Europe.(Al-Qaeda's threat to Europe)
- One plot foiled. There will be others IT IS the stuff of European nightmares: a clutch of suspected terrorists, two phials of unidentified liquid and one suit for protection against nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, all found on December 16th alongside wads of cash,...
- Research articles 2002-12-21
