A colleague sent me this article which encourages us all to get hip to the dangers of jargon. According to a survey by YouGov, 40+% of people think phrases like “blue sky thinking,” and “getting our ducks in a row,” makes bosses look “untrustworthy and weak.”
But, perhaps even more interestingly, people apparently have this stuff on the brain, because someone else sent me this clip from the Wall Street Journal talking about the next set of annoying words we all will be using shortly. Here’s the scoop:
Jargon OUT:
rightsizing, digitization, war for talent
Jargon IN:
delayering, web 2.0, knowledge acquisition, unsiloing
I guess it all sort of depends what world you’re living in – I don’t sense that “war for talent” is on the wane. Not even a little bit.
November 21st, 2006 at 8:32 am
Can’t agree more on Talent and Spirituality. While I do not know whether it will be that siginificant and important to business managers in the next two decades than it is today,is up for debate but the truth of the matter is, people are more successful in functions that meet their intrinsic search for excellence.
I have struggled with whether this has anything to do with what part of the world you come from or the income bracket of your family… relating to the Marslow pyramid of needs which I strongly contend but it has stood the test of time as ‘truth’, over the years so I give up…I have met people who sought to fulfill the ‘yearning’ or ‘burning desire’ that they have and moved from job to job and company to company without much success.
In a recent training course, I had asked my fellow participants if they are enjoying what they are doing and the answers were shocking.
We can invent our generational buzzword for this intrinsic value and call it spiritism whatever but I truly agree that organizations that give a thought to employee ’satisfaction’ (not salarifaction) in hirirng and placement will definitely have an edge over others who will carry on ‘business as usual’.