Speak No Evil: The Decade’s Worst New Business Terms

Perhaps we were doomed from the start. In a decade that we never knew how to name — the aughts ? the naughts ? the zeros ? — tortured words and phrases in business communication blossomed. The list of jargon is long and lackluster: jump the shark, it is what it is, meta, there’s no there there, [blank] is the new [blank], no worries, verticals, the new normal. Now, it’s been a long decade, and we couldn’t possibly include all the words and phrases that have run rampant through the lexicon. But to examine why business speech has become so maddening, let’s take a look at the worst offenders. Continue reading Speak No Evil: The Decade’s Worst New Business Terms Speak No Evil: The Decade’s Worst New Business Terms originally appeared on DailyFinance on Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:00:00. Filed Under: Columns Permalink | Tweet this! | Comments

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