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Monday, January 5, 2009
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Human Capital
Written By
Tom Parrish
MetaTech Sales Guy
“Ministers meet, work on the movement of goods
Also work on the movement of capital
Also work on the movement of human beings
As if we were so many cattle…”
“Grim Travelers”
Bruce Cockburn
Humans, 1980
So I was driving to work listening to Grim Travelers and got to thinking, don’t you sometimes wonder how the pseudo-experts came up with the pairing of the words Human and Capital? For me, this is like visually pairing the finest crystal swan – beautiful, rare, fragile beyond any one’s imagination and the Caterpillar 797B, the ultra-class mining truck deployed to the Ft. McMurray area of Alberta for tar-sands excavation. (visual depiction below)
Human
+
Capital
Now, don’t get me wrong…I get as turned on as the next guy at the thought of the application of modern operations research techniques to the problems of optimizing the human supply-chain, but really, doesn’t all this pseudo-expert drivel make you want to scream?!
=
Tom Parrish
MetaTech Sales Guy
“Ministers meet, work on the movement of goods
Also work on the movement of capital
Also work on the movement of human beings
As if we were so many cattle…”
“Grim Travelers”
Bruce Cockburn
Humans, 1980
So I was driving to work listening to Grim Travelers and got to thinking, don’t you sometimes wonder how the pseudo-experts came up with the pairing of the words Human and Capital? For me, this is like visually pairing the finest crystal swan – beautiful, rare, fragile beyond any one’s imagination and the Caterpillar 797B, the ultra-class mining truck deployed to the Ft. McMurray area of Alberta for tar-sands excavation. (visual depiction below)
Human
+
Capital
Now, don’t get me wrong…I get as turned on as the next guy at the thought of the application of modern operations research techniques to the problems of optimizing the human supply-chain, but really, doesn’t all this pseudo-expert drivel make you want to scream?!
=
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
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!
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!
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