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It amuses me that "bullshit" has an academic definition and that there's such a thing as the Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale. And a "corporate bullshit generator."

I work with folks who talk this pish all day long!

Yep. Who knew?😏😏

gee no kidding

Average LinkedIn user

Lol

Sherlock looking for absence of fæces

So if you take anyone's Indeed profile seriously, you're unfit to work in corporate.

Do another study comparing levels of education, socio-economic backgrounds, and interpretation of corporate speak. :)

This is not surprising at all.

They’re just NOW drawing this conclusion?

No shit

I was recently in a work strategy seminar that unwisely mixed business leaders with scientists, and the divide between the pro-corporate speak business types and the "if I sit here quietly for long enough maybe they will let me get back to real work that matters" scientists was STARK.

Mastery of a subject is the ability to explain it without technical language and buzzwords.

But they can absolutely *demolish* a brunch.

This whole study could've been an email.

What a mean study lol

Most managers see themselves as the creative ones regardless of the field. They see themselves as splitting the work into segmented tasks which they assign to code and word smiths.

Oh, yes!! My cringe responses make sense now!

Ya think?

This is a whole ass fact. People that I worked with who pulled no punches, gave straight talk and maybe cussed a little were some of THE most productive people. They didn’t have time for corporate theater. They needed shit done and communicated it easily.

Huh, remind which direction the sun rises in?

Could that be because they’re mere yes-men, incapable of independent and rational thought, I wonder? 🤔 (At my last place of work my colleagues and I used to refer to it as “management wank-speak”.)

youtu.be/GyV_UG60dD4?...

As a Gen Xer I have no time for corporate speak or any other BS fancy talk. Just boil it down to one sentence so I can yes it and do what I want anyway.

I had a manager once who said ‘basically’ so many times in meetings that I used to tally it and publish his BPM (basicallys per meeting) afterwards. The other people in the meeting could see me doing it and knew what I was doing, and occasionally struggled to hold it together.

Wait, dumb people are bad at their jobs?!? <shockedpikachuface>

Corporate speak is being a piece of shit but in a friendly way If you can't read between the lines i can't imagine how you could lead.

See also: The Democratic Party

Duh

Our training department lead is a 25 year old dweeb who is loud and proud about starting at the company at 16 and never working anywhere else and for dropping out of HS and never going to college but "landing a career" Incidentally our training dept fuckin sucks Drank the most Kool aid

lol

The key words here are 'fall for': if you'll fail for corporate bullshit you're not capable of evaluating what's in front of you. Problem is an actual leader would see it was bullshit so is already a problem to the system.

A new study out of Cornell University finds grass green, water wet

How about that new episode of Digital Circus?

"The report, by ISBO, the Institute for the Study of the Bleedin' Obvious, found that..."

Lol

I’m multitasking right now and don’t have much bandwidth, so let’s put a pin in this and circle back to it before EOD

Ya don't fuckin say

Feeling so vindicated

Of course?

Also most likely to be promoted to management

Pretty much, its fascinating isnt it?

Kind of like the difference between adhd and non adhd people but even bigger. (Though note adhd is a wide spectrum so *a lot* of people are on it)

This is surely very controversial but I genuinely think some people are just less sentient. And as far as I can tell, they both tend to function 'better' while also being worse people.

There are doers, and there are bullshitters. It’s a golden age for the latter, to the detriment of us all.

My dementia-ridden, tech-illiterate supervisor is completely unable to articulate specific, concrete expectations or engage meaningfully with methodological research design discussions. So he reverts to nonsense platitudes like "we're futurists" and literally nothing gets done in our dept

Executives who issue corporate speak are the least equipped to make good business decisions, including hiring decisions. Or executives issue corporate speak when they're skimming from the firm and only hire the most gullible employees and take on the most gullible partners.

It would be cool if the lessons learned from sociological studies like this were ever applied anywhere but alas the ones who use "corporate speak" control all the money that makes all the decisions.

Oops sorry Should have marked it as a spoiler

Will this be leveraged going forward after an initial reach out to all the stakeholders?

Which describes 90+% of b-school grads today

"A new study indicates that people most excited to eat paint chips are underperforming in managing paint factory"

you gotta optimize those wins and take your share to deliver value!

hmm. i find the people who are most impressed with corporate speak are the admins... 🤔

It’s all about getting the balance right!

Behold: odd.dog/blog/corpora...

Doers better than talkers shock.

Can we double click on that for a second? I think we need to hear from the key stakeholders

don't boil the ocean, I don't want your bandwith overdrawn

I don't have the bandwidth for this right now.

Paradigm shifting AF!