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How do You Arrange a Perfect Business Meeting?Newest Review: ... is absolutely in love with this word and at every meeting will use it at least twice. An example would be: ‘I’ve had an idea ... more |
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by count_zero - written on 23/03/07 (Very useful, 602 readings)
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An updated guide to business speak: It probably started in the eighties with the yuppies, they might be an easy target but I’m going to blame them anyway as they deserve it. I’m talking about the obsession in business to take regular words from the English language and abuse them into some entirely new, nonsensical, meaning. It would be equally easy to blame the Americans, but you can’t really blame them for trying to impose their personality on our shared language. No, this is a problem for business and the increasing need to bamboozle customers and avoid blame. Now at this point you may well be glazing over and anticipating a tired rehash of ...


