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I read a lot of Dilbert when I was a kid (weird how popular that strip is among pre-employment audiences), so I grew up hating corporate jargon before ever being around it. I snickered at synergy before I knew what it meant.
Now that I’ve spent almost 3(!) years in the workplace, I’ve come to…
Other examples I`ve encountered:
“We`ve got John here to give us some color on the European luxury market.” means “John is here to tell us what he knows, but we don`t guarantee he`ll have any great insights.”
“Mike, a Partner from the Dallas office, is going to provide part of the thought leadership for the first phase.” means “Mike isn`t going to do anything but his name will be on the client materials.”
“There`s a lot of low-hanging fruit we can focus on first.” means “We don`t know how to fix the important, complicated issues so we`ll first fix the easy ones so that we can show that we`re doing something.”
