"She could go on in this way for extended periods of time without mentioning any actual people, actions, or thoughts. There’s a business version of this illness. It involves the use of words such as “space,” “around,” “synergy,” and “value-add” with a healthy dose of equivocators like “sort of” and “kind of” to ensure that there is no commitment to anything being said: “I’m in the sort of sustainability space around kind of bringing synergistic value-add to other people’s work around this kind of space.” Oh, OK, that explains it."
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I’ve sort of noticed this kind of speechification patternizing in the kind of online applications e-biz.
I Don’t Understand What Anyone Is Saying Anymore - Dan Pallotta - Harvard Business Review (via Mark Hurst)
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