What is Akivascheme?
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A completely ridiculous, unrealistic and rather hair-brained idea that will get you nowhere in the business world regardless of how enthusiastic your superior may be when dictating it to you. In fact, it gets you three steps behind in what you were actually doing.
My boss called me on my day off and asked me to call 10 major banks from 10 different cities and tell them to sponsor us with $10k each, then buy 100 raffles tickets each, promote us in their mailing, and in return we'd put little mentions of the banks on the flyers for our fair.....man...it was such an akivascheme"
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