Why Business People Speak Like Idiots

Written By
Tom Parrish
MetaTech Sales Guy

What we’re reading:

http://www.fightthebull.com/index.asp

http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/alternative.pdf


At MetaTech, we are ever vigilant about the use of corporate-speak, and seek to root it out wherever and whenever we hear it. Of course, this is easier said than done, as it is strewn across our language landscape like our children’s dirty laundry, and has been bred into us from our first day in the corporate world.

So, when one of us says something like, “Kim, how are you coming on the development of our Talent Acquisition Program…”, or, “ Jan, how do you think our Human Capital Management Strategy compares with that of our competitors…”, we immediately grab Nerf baseball bats and mercilessly beat the wayward speaker with abandon before signing them up for MetaTech re-education sessions later at the local watering hole.

Although the way is long and the path is dark, we are committed and focused on our goal of creating a company where real people speak simply and directly to one another in a language we can all understand. Mission impossible? Maybe. Are we up for the fight?

You bet!