Comments on: If Your Paradigm Shifts, Will it Hurt?

By: Lori

Lori — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:43:00 +0000

They’re both, Angie. That’s what’s so disturbing.

By: Angie Ledbetter

Angie Ledbetter — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:31:00 +0000

Are your clients’ clients computers or “regular folk?” eww on the buzzy jargon words. I’m old enough to remember the fascination with segue and gravitas. 🙂

By: Kimberly Ben

Kimberly Ben — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:06:00 +0000

I need to figure out a way to steer a couple of clients to your post. I’ll leave it at that.;)

By: Lori

Lori — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:18:00 +0000

That’s frustrating! And yes, the Six Sigma stuff is annoying. I get it, but it’s still annoying.

I forgot my all-time most-hated one: value proposition. LOATHE that one. And anything that starts with the word “core.” Core strengths, core values, core mission, core, core, core….UGH!

By: writtenexpressions

writtenexpressions — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:14:00 +0000

"Knowledge transfer" was in a Request for Proposal I just responded to. Ugh. A few more for your list:

-human capital, aka "employees."
-Six Sigma and its corresponding rankings (black belt, etc.)
-in my pre-freelance life, I was expected to meet MBOs. MBO stands for "Management by Objective" and I longed to scream at people that there's no such thing as "meeting MBOs," and what they really should be talking about was meeting objectives and then finding ways to be managed via those objectives.