306. The Mystery of Corporate Jargon & Management Speak (Part 1) with Paul Taylor

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🗓️ 28 October 2015

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Why do people in meetings at work keep talking about "thinking outside the box"? Why does my boss say we need to "get all our ducks in a row"? And why does my project manager want to "touch base with me offline"? If it's all a mystery to you, don't worry - LEP is here to decode all this weird language. If you work in an office in an English-speaking country I'm sure you'll have heard of 'corporate jargon' or 'management speak'. This is one of the things that people complain about the most, in offices all around the UK. It seems that managers, bosses, project managers, corporate leaders all speak a strange version of English full of bizarre idioms, over-complicated metaphors and unnecessarily big words. But what is 'management speak', why do people use it, and why do people find it so annoying? In this episode I'm joined by former Apple employee Paul Taylor as we 'peel back the onion' and decode the phenomenon of management speak. Listen to find out all the details and to learn some management speak in the process. Click here for transcripts and notes http://wp.me/p4IuUx-5aE

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0:00.0	This episode of Luke's English podcast is sponsored as usual by audible.com and they have loads of audio books and they they want you to download one for free. That's the weird thing actually want you to have one free. They're just like we've got too many audio books
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0:18.0	like to download one just go to audibletrial.com forward slash teacher Luke you can get any audio book you want all the
0:25.1	details are on my website that's it for this little bit of promotion now let's
0:28.7	begin the episode here we go you're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information, visit teacherluk.co. UK.
0:37.0	Hello everybody. Welcome back to another episode of Luke's English
0:43.0	podcast hope you're all well I hope you're fine I hope you're doing okay I hope the
0:46.7	weather is all right it's not very good here but that doesn't matter because this is
0:50.0	audio and it really doesn't doesn't matter that much does it in the scheme of things.
0:54.4	Paul Taylor is with me today hello Paul.
0:56.7	Hello.
0:57.7	Now before we start Paul do you think I could just have a word with you in my office?
1:03.0	Yeah, yeah, it sounds serious, but yeah, it's all right, it's nothing to worry about.
1:07.0	Just take a seat.
1:08.0	Okay.
1:09.0	So, basically Paul, I just wanted to touch base with you, just in order to kind of get all our ducks in a row.
1:16.0	Okay? So let's peel back the onion and have a good look under the bonnet on this podcast situation, okay?
1:22.0	Because at the end of the day, you know, we've brought you on board here
1:25.2	at Luke's English podcast because you know we think that you bring a lot to the table and I think that
1:29.6	impacts favorably on our key market component players.
1:33.0	And I think this is something that we can leverage to bring about greater penetration,
1:37.0	ultimately pushing our growth potential above and beyond just the low hanging fruit
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