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Merry Christmas To All, And A Buzzword-Free New Year!

'Twas the week before Christmas and enterprise-wide/Not a creature was stirring, our bandwidth was fried/We’d been synergized, leveraged, geographically dispersed/Right-sized, incentivized, and engineered in reverse... Click through for more of our C-suite twist on "The Night Before Christmas"--and a holiday plea for a jargon-free workplace. READ»

Sociomateriality: More Academic Jargon Monoxide

We academics do many things to invite deserved ridicule and parody. Perhaps the most vile habit--especially among behavioral scientists like me--is we invent or spread new words that are just absurd abuses of the English language. ...READ»

Jargon-mania: A Social-Enterprise Lexicon

There's nothing like a conference to breed and spread fresh jargon. At the Skoll World Forum for Social Entrepreneurship, they've included "impact," "accountability," "social business," that old ...READ»