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Workers Who Love 'Synergizing #Paradigms ' Might Be Bad at Their Jobs

#CornellUniversity makes an announcement. "Employees who are impressed by vague corporate-speak like ' #synergistic leadership,' or 'growth-hacking paradigms' may struggle with practical decision-making, a new Cornell study reveals.
#corpspeak #growthhacking

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Cornell University makes an announcement. "Employees who are impressed by vague corporate-speak like 'synergistic leadership,' or 'growth-hacking paradigms' may struggle with practical decision-making, a new Cornell study reveals." Published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, r...

Brian Beach Nov 14

Heard in meeting: “on a going-forward basis”

My interpretation: “later”

#corpspeak #buzzwords

🔏 Matthias Wiesmann Oct 23, 2024

I don’t speak english…

https://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/archives/39935

#CorpSpeak #english #globish

I don’t speak english…

I have a confession to make, I don’t speak english. You might argue that I have been working in english speaking environments for the last quarter century, that a good chunk of my blog entrie…

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mtp Sep 12, 2024

necro-reorging: the act of resurrecting a dead organizational unit's name for a new organizational unit.

Bonus points if the resurrected OU is compositionally and functionally indiscernible from the deceased one.

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Staking my historical claim on this neologism. I've seen this several times in my career, and it happened with an extremely unique OU name a second time today.

#CorpSpeak
#ManagementTheory

maywecomein Nov 27, 2023

I *think* just heard the phrase "minus ones" as a way to refer to a manager's reports. As in, "we'll have to check with Russell's minus ones".

I get it but it seems weird! And "plus one" I'd guess wouldn't end up referring to a person's manager.

#linguistics #corpSpeak

रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)Nov 24, 2023

This hit hard 😭:

“Reflecting On 18 Years At Google”, Ian Hickson (https://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1700627373&count=1).

On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38381573

#Google #Culture #Flutter #DontBeEvil #CorpSpeak #Politics #JobSatisfaction #Xooglers

Hixie's Natural Log: Reflecting on 18 years at Google

JanArz Feb 6, 2023

@ben it doesn't help when they use meaningless #corpspeak to justify layoffs: "PayPal CEO Dan Schulman pinned the blame for his company's decision to lay off 2,000 employees on the 'challenging macro-economic environment.'" Consumers making other choices in protest of outlandish CEO salaries may be the only option--which is hard to do with so many monopolies

BobertHepker@kali:~$

Jan 23, 2023

Anyone have "What are the aligned success criteria?" on their #CorpSpeak bingo board?

JanArz Jan 13, 2023

So, they were announcing promotions at work (director of blahblahblah is now vice president of blahblahblah, etc.), and someone in upper management called one of those just promoted a "Swiss army knife of awesome." First, "awesome" is not a noun. Second, no...don't do that. #swissarmyknife #corpspeak

रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)Aug 25, 2022

#CorpSpeak still makes me cringe, but like the author here, I find myself using more of it (& then cursing myself for doing that):

“On Corpspeak”, Andre Cooper (https://goodreason.substack.com/p/on-corpspeak).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32562025

#Language #CorporateLingo #Bland #Meaningless #English