1)    Shipping product fully expecting it to be returned so that it can be counted as a monthly or quarterly sale

2)    Shipping product to a subsidiary so that it can be counted as a monthly or quarterly sale

3)    Substituting production numbers for shipment numbers, a practice that obscures outsourcing and true shipment numbers

4)    Encouraging early payments (or pre payments) to make one quarter or month look as if sales are picking up

5)    Using misleading language to suggest progress such as implying champion or pilot scale product is in commercial production

6)    Selling common sense and/or false hope at a high margin

7)    Selling false hope at all

8)    Forgetting that teams are made up of individuals

9)    Supporting only the ideas of the loudest person in the room while clamping down on logic

10) Rationalizing any or all of the above as a) the ends justify the means b) everyone is doing it and so it is common business practice or the only way to compete