How government, business, advertisers, and others use language to deceive you. --Title page.
Introduction -- Bullshit: a spotters guide -- Why is there so much bullshit? -- How to do things with bullshit -- Cutting the bullshit
Our organizations are flooded with empty talk. We are constantly "going forward" to lands of "deliverables", stopping off on the "journey" to "drill down" into "best practice". Being an expert at using management speak has become more important in corporate life than delivering …
"Our organizations are flooded with empty talk. We are constantly "going forward" to lands of "deliverables", stopping off on the "journey" to "drill down" into "best practice". Being an expert at using management speak has become more important in corporate life than delivering…
"Business bullshit considers why empty talk is so popular, and oulines the impact it has on organisations and the people who work there. The author makes a case for why organisations need to avoid empty talk and reconnect with core activities. This provocative, lucd book is esse…
Talk Normal is about corporate jargon, waffle and poor business communication. Full of shocking examples, it will help you to improve your own communication style whilst navigating the nightmare of management speak at work.
Based on the author's blog, it's full of excruciating examples of corporate jargon, and it will help you to steer a path to better communication, whilst coping with the worst excesses of management speak at work.