Are you going forward? Then stop now
This piece, apparently written for on-air delivery, is pretty hilarious. As one, like many of us, who has spent days upon days listening to the chipper clichés of managers and the like (remember the days of "synergy" and "out-of-the-box thinking"), it led me to believe that all that an MBA granted you was the ability to use, misuse, coin and abuse such hackneyed tropes.
This article is a grand skewering of such business speak and a fine critique of modern business languages inability to really say anything at all.
Favorite excerpt:
If love has no place in the language of business, neither does passion. Passion, says the dictionary, means a strong sexual desire or the suffering of Christ at the crucifixion. In other words it doesn't really have an awful lot to do with a typical day in the office - unless things have gone very wrong indeed.
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