Archive for the ‘Communication’ Category

Jargon, Jargon Everywhere…

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Raven over at Raven's Brain posted a great piece on business jargon a while back.  Business Jargon gives me the screaming heebeegeebees (spell that on a bar bet sometime).  I think it's one of the greatest enemies of any project manager, leader or consultant.  It's our jobs to communicate better.  Adding ...

UF Postings Past: Politics of the Back Room and How to Cope

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Everyone out there in the business world is overly familiar with meetings. You probably have several per week, if not several per day. We hold meetings, in theory, to communicate and to make decisions as a group.  I’m here to tell you that that’s often nonsense. The fact is, most successful ...

UF Postings Past: Say What You Mean

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

Abbreviations are getting out of hand in business. Every department of every busines seems to have hundreds. On top of that, we’ve all gotten on the band wagon of branding. The company intranet isn’t the intranet, its “The Informer” or “Mercury” or something else branded and sexy. Let’s consider what this ...

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