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Weasel Word Wednesday #24 – core
I was a little surprised to see the words “ASIA IS CORE” shouting from the front cover of this month’s MIS* magazine. Core? Core of what? Core to what? Nope, just core. Could be wors… more →
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Seeing is Believing, so Why are We in Denial?
wrote 2 weeks ago: Preface To give you some insight on my day today, I received an email from a guy who’s been at … more →
A leadership beer at a change engagement chat.
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wrote 1 month ago: Change is needed. For many reasons. Sometimes it’s because of financial needs, changed market condit … more →
Reverse Spin: When PR Steers Ethical Practices
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wrote 1 month ago: Amid the news of RBC swapping a handful of its Canadian IT staff for foreign workers, I zeroed in on … more →
Terminology (part 3)
wrote 2 months ago: The other side of the terminology discussion involves using industry standard terms of a particular … more →
Assimilating Into Corporate America
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wrote 3 months ago: Coming to America “Right, so for this particular ask, I need you to…” For this ask? Ask. Was she tr … more →
Pardon? Yer what? Que?
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wrote 3 months ago: Having worked in and around the corporate world for the vast majority of my adult life, you’d think … more →
How to Sell a "Girl" BS
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wrote 4 months ago: Mmmm… Active cultures. Birth Control On the Bottom Yogurt Once in a while, a group of clever p … more →
The Uncanny Valley of Communication
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wrote 4 months ago: Uncanny Valley graph (updated) (Photo credit: Elif Ayiter/Alpha Auer/…./) Here’s a fascinating … more →
Citigroup Eliminates 11,000 Jobs in History's Most Corporate-Jargony Paragraph Ever
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wrote 5 months ago: Hoo boy, this is some incredible corporate-speak – as in, “repositioning” out of the com … more →
Fight For Your Right: To Work
wrote 5 months ago: What is a “Right To Work” state? It is a state that has passed laws limiting the power o … more →
WANTED: A MEETING OF MEANINGS
wrote 5 months ago: Communicators Have Reason to Be Cranky ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ No matter how trivial the medi … more →
Lying to the public is now a 'fine art'!
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wrote 6 months ago: THE NASTY CORPORATE MODEL OF ‘SPIN’ HAS BEEN REPLICATED EVERYWHERE! George Orwell’ … more →
Wherein My Ears Bleed
wrote 6 months ago: The only jargon I’m interested in. I’ve made it quite clear to my friends that I cannot … more →
Corporate Speak
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wrote 7 months ago: Have you ever played Corporate Bingo? In my cubicle days, we used to play it at meetings or on trai … more →
Old Is The New Old
wrote 7 months ago: I might be obsessing a bit about aging these days, but here’s what I learned from the commerci … more →
Just Call Me The Woman With the Hammer
wrote 7 months ago: You know the saying, “To the man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail?” It came to mind last … more →
The Stupidification of Leadership: A Continuing Crisis
wrote 7 months ago: I just wrote a three-page report that has a one-paragraph “executive summary.” The … more →
World's Greatest Newspaper
wrote 8 months ago: These headlines, back to back, on the Chicago Tribune homepage: Apple sells out of iPhone 5 as sales … more →
Take Me To Your Thought-Leader
wrote 8 months ago: We used to have “thinkers.” These were called intellectuals, or even philosophers. We us … more →
