Bridging Communications

Business Jargon

Do you ever think about the ‘business-speak’ we hear in our offices, in meetings, on television done by the talking heads, and heaven knows politicians have gotten into the act? I came across an interesting article on www.finance.yahoo.com that quoted from an article from Forbes. I tried to remember back in the ‘dark ages’…you know, that time before we created synergy and leveraged our knowledge/jobs/data. Communication seemed much clearer and simpler.

There was a time when we didn’t create synergy, we cooperated with each other. We didn’t leverage anything, we controlled a situation. When did we stop speaking and writing in plain English? Maybe we need to stop trying to manage knowledge/data/products, and begin using language that says what it means and means what it say. Maybe we need to start creating bridges to understanding each other. Just a thought. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-most-annoying--pretentious-and-useless-business-jargon.html