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It's critical that we leverage our core business processes to drive growth and deliver solutions that maximize value for our customers.TimeForGuinness wrote:...all of the sudden this board is starting to stress me out a bit...Arthur Dent wrote:Going forward, I suggest you take an action item to recast your priorities so as to ensure that your GRB deliverables meet the quality metrics set forth in our mission statement.
It was for questions that there was no other answer for. Like, "Am I guaranteed admittance to a PhD program if I complete this master's degree?"JL21 wrote:We're sort of hedging on semantics, but I view that as falling under good social skills more than anything else.G. Keenan wrote:This speak happens everywhere. Last year I worked for a graduate program at a university and during the prep for the big visit weekend, when all the prospective students come, we were instructed that if a student asked a question to which the answer was "no," we were to respond with, "actually....." and then proceed to tell them why they couldn't get what they wanted from this program.
A prominent philosophy professor gave me these instructions.
Nobody likes to hear "no".
You should have worn some reflective, cool sunglasses like this guy:G. Keenan wrote:It was for questions that there was no other answer for. Like, "Am I guaranteed admittance to a PhD program if I complete this master's degree?"JL21 wrote:We're sort of hedging on semantics, but I view that as falling under good social skills more than anything else.G. Keenan wrote:This speak happens everywhere. Last year I worked for a graduate program at a university and during the prep for the big visit weekend, when all the prospective students come, we were instructed that if a student asked a question to which the answer was "no," we were to respond with, "actually....." and then proceed to tell them why they couldn't get what they wanted from this program.
A prominent philosophy professor gave me these instructions.
Nobody likes to hear "no".
"Actually, no."
So, you'd still say "no"?G. Keenan wrote:It was for questions that there was no other answer for. Like, "Am I guaranteed admittance to a PhD program if I complete this master's degree?"JL21 wrote:We're sort of hedging on semantics, but I view that as falling under good social skills more than anything else.G. Keenan wrote:This speak happens everywhere. Last year I worked for a graduate program at a university and during the prep for the big visit weekend, when all the prospective students come, we were instructed that if a student asked a question to which the answer was "no," we were to respond with, "actually....." and then proceed to tell them why they couldn't get what they wanted from this program.
A prominent philosophy professor gave me these instructions.
Nobody likes to hear "no".
"Actually, no."
Lucy Kellaway writes a excellent column for the Financial Times. In addition to her campaign against corporate speak, she was the one who unearthed that unspeakable Shell Oil anthem.G. Keenan wrote:This is a great list of corporate speak.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7457287.stm
Last week, I was in a meeting with one of our execs and a bunch of his staff people. In a 90-minute meeting, the term "at the end of the day" was used 17 times. I counted.ghostrunner wrote:God, no.Radbird wrote:"Net net, at the end of the day..."
I would have paid good money to see someone actually erect a memorial in honor of the meeting.Radbird wrote:Last week, I was in a meeting with one of our execs and a bunch of his staff people. In a 90-minute meeting, the term "at the end of the day" was used 17 times. I counted.ghostrunner wrote:God, no.Radbird wrote:"Net net, at the end of the day..."
Halfway in, the exec asked who was "memorializing" the meeting. I think that means who was taking and publishing minutes, but I wasn't in the mood to socialize that with anyone to see if I was right.
I find it appalling. I just hate this kind of stuff.G. Keenan wrote:This is a great list of corporate speak.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7457287.stm