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Author: Tim Phillips Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers ISBN: 0749463651 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 184
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Tim Phillips has been a journalist for 20 years, and during that time he has been slowly driven crazy by bad spokespeople: the jargon, the evasiveness, the inability to make a point or to answer a direct question. Now that every company has a small army dedicated to communications, the problem seems to be getting worse. That's why we should stop thinking about spin and management, and start concentrating on talking like human beings. Is this possible? Talk Normal is an attempt to find out. Based on the author's blog, www.talknormal.co.uk it's full of excruciating examples of corporate jargon, and it will help you to steer a path to better communication, whilst coping with the worst excesses of management speak at work.
Author: J. Randy Gordon Publisher: ISBN: Category : Business Languages : en Pages : 450
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FOREWORD BY: sports agent Leigh Steinberg.Using the right buzzwords, catch phrases, euphemisms, short anecdotes, and general business speak can offer you some major social currency in the right circles. This indispensable book (BusiBUZZ) is a "must have" for anyone wanting to get ahead in the business world and for those who want to "stay current."
Author: Tim Phillips Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers ISBN: 0749463651 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 184
Book Description
Tim Phillips has been a journalist for 20 years, and during that time he has been slowly driven crazy by bad spokespeople: the jargon, the evasiveness, the inability to make a point or to answer a direct question. Now that every company has a small army dedicated to communications, the problem seems to be getting worse. That's why we should stop thinking about spin and management, and start concentrating on talking like human beings. Is this possible? Talk Normal is an attempt to find out. Based on the author's blog, www.talknormal.co.uk it's full of excruciating examples of corporate jargon, and it will help you to steer a path to better communication, whilst coping with the worst excesses of management speak at work.
Author: Charles B. Wendel Publisher: Amacom Books ISBN: 9780814478943 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 166
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Kanbrain, zero defections, teamnet, empowerment, core competency, reverse engineering. Don't know what they mean? Managers who aren't fluent with '90s jargon may be risking embarrassment or even career self-sabotage. This easy-to-look-up guide provides entries for more than 100 terms, with commentary and examples to explain their meaning and help readers judge their value.
Author: James Sudakow Publisher: ISBN: 9780996503310 Category : Business Languages : en Pages : 122
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Are you interested in baking someone into a process at work? Leading a paradigm shift? Or maybe you just feel like drilling down after a nice data dump so you can flesh out a straw dog to help everyone get their ducks in a row and sing from the same song-sheet. Whether you understood any of that or had no idea what you just read, you've probably heard these expressions lobbed around the corporate world with some regularity. What does all of this mean? In meetings on his first job out of college, James Sudakow found himself struggling to pick up a bizarre new language: corporate-speak. He pretended to know what they were saying, but in actuality, he had no idea what expressions like "singing from the same song sheet" or "picking the low hanging fruit" meant or why strange phrases like these were being used to talk about business operations. Had he missed something important in his education that would have prepared him for this? With time, Sudakow adapted to the language; and much to his own embarrassment, he found himself actually using many of these same expressions. For his own sanity, he came up with a plan to combat this corporate-speak language - and it all started with a whiteboard in his office. He listed all of the words and phrases his colleagues, even superiors, were not allowed to use in his office - less they allowed themselves to be subjected to some form of office hazing. "I wondered if we all knew how ridiculous we sounded using these generally weird phrases, instead of just speaking in plain English." Sudakow says."I wanted to call attention to the way we were all communicating and see if we could change it." Ironically, not only did his experiment not deter their use of any of the expressions on his whiteboard, Sudakow found that his colleagues put up with the hazing with seemingly far too much enjoyment and also began to actually, if not enthusiastically, add additional phrases to his whiteboard, taking great pride in their contributions. That whiteboard became the premise for his new book, "Picking the Low-Hanging Fruit... and Other Stupid Stuff We Say in the Corporate World," a humorous corporate glossary that sheds an irreverent light on the weird things we say in the corporate world every day.
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Our organizations are flooded with empty talk. We are constantly "going forward" to lands of "deliverables", stopping off on the "journey" to "drill down" into "best practice". Being an expert at using management speak has become more important in corporate life than delivering long lasting results. The upshot is that meaningless corporate jargon is killing our organizations. In this book, management scholar the author argues we need to call this empty talk what it is: bullshit. The book looks at how organizations have become vast machines for manufacturing, distributing and consuming bullshit. It follows how the meaningless language of management has spread through schools, NGOs, politics and the media. Business Bullshit shows you how to spot business bullshit, considers why it is so popular, and outlines the impact it has on organizations and the people who work there. It also outlines what we can do to minimise bullshit at work. The author makes a case for why organizations need to avoid empty talk and reconnect with core activities.
Author: Stephen Kirlew Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 112
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Let's face it, we've all been guilty of "circling back" to "touch base" with a colleague to get a "30,000 foot view" so you can create a "strategic staircase" to pick the "low-hanging fruit." Okay, so maybe you haven't packed all of those buzzwords into one sentence, but I'm sure you know someone who has. Since COVID-19 forced many of us to work from home, maybe you've even discovered you're married to a "let's circle back" guy/girl. 'Buzzwords & BS' is a lighthearted look at business buzzwords. A buzzword lover's (or hater's) bible, if you will. The book's main character, Bob Sheldon (BS), is, of course, a fictitious character, but he embodies the buzzword-loving company executives many of us have met during our careers. Give this book to the 'Bob Sheldons' in your life to see how many buzzwords they recognize.
Author: Brian Fugere Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 9780743269094 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 194
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There is a fundamental disconnection between the way business people speak and real people communicate. From advertisers, big business and CEOs - the blather is coming at us in waves. The International Language of Business is no longer English - it's gobbledygook. The authors blindly discovered the enormity of the problem in June 2003 with the launch of Bullfighter, an anti-jargon software tool. But jargon is just one symptom in a larger problem afflicting corporate communications today: the wholesale inability to connect with an audience. In the form of admirably straight-talk, we discover how to avoid the 'obscurity trap', 'the anonymity trap', the 'hard-sell trap' and most importantly, 'the tedium trap'. In this witty and practical new book readers are given all the tools they need to fight the 'spin' and learn to speak like the rest of us.
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