We have a family trip booked to the Cancun area for February but ended up having an opportunity to go again in April so Shea and I have booked to go to Puerto Vallarta for the first time ever!
Beware those who use language to hide, not to clarify…
The company hired me to lead their "Agile Transformation." I don't know what Agile means. Nobody does. That's why it works.
I make $425,000 a year. To move sticky notes. From left to right. On a board. The board is digital now. The sticky notes cost $80,000 in Jira licenses.…
This is ChatGPT’s take on some of the issues with “MBA-speak”.
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Corporate language, or “MBA-speak,” creates several problems.
Lack of clarity. Phrases like “leveraging synergies” or “moving the needle” hide meaning instead of revealing it. You end up with fog, not focus.
Evasion of responsibility. Terms like “right-sizing” or “human capital adjustment” disguise layoffs. It lets people avoid saying what’s really happening.
Loss of trust. When staff or the public hear jargon instead of plain talk, they assume you’re hiding something. Credibility drops fast.
Groupthink. Everyone repeats the same buzzwords. Real ideas get crowded out by slogans. Creativity and dissent shrink.
Wasted time. Meetings and reports fill up with filler words that add no value. People spend more time decoding than deciding.
Dehumanization. Talking about “resources” instead of “people” erases humanity. It makes it easier to treat workers like numbers.
Barrier to understanding. Plain language connects across roles and skill levels. MBA-speak creates insiders and outsiders.
You get better results when you speak simply, name problems directly, and use verbs that describe action instead of pretending to.
(To put it bluntly, someone once said that “MBA Speak” is what comes out when MBA’s masturbate!”) 😮
The Wexford Carol, music from 12th century Ireland, the oldest Christmas Carol still sung today. Happy Christmas from the west of Ireland ? pic.twitter.com/5nNOZU3mok
I’m pretty hard on religion and a lot of people are saying her “grieving” isn’t appropriate. But if I’m being completely honest, if she’s truly a hardcore Christian Evangelical, I’m guessing that there’s nothing deeper here (literally) than her thinking that her husband dying was somehow “God’s plan” and she’s now inherited his role of, uhm, owning the libs or something? I mean, like most far right Evangelical Christian stuff, her WWE-style entrance is weird as fuck. But hey, we all grieve in our own way, right?
Somewhat fitting that a random gentleman was handing out free homemade reindeer carvings at a local pub/Regina institution where I’ve drank enough (rein)beer over the years to turn my nose *very* red. (Only drank Diet Coke this visit though.)
