{"id":2508,"date":"2012-06-22T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=2508"},"modified":"2013-06-26T07:45:25","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T12:45:25","slug":"leadership-jargon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2012\/06\/leadership-jargon\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership Jargon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh does this <a href=\"http:\/\/salesandmarketing.com\/content\/avoid-doublespeak-trap\" target=\"_blank\">Sales &amp; Marketing Management article<\/a> hit me where I live.\u00a0 The gist of the article is the corporate speak many leaders use in hopes of sounding\u2026smarter?\u00a0 I really don\u2019t know why they do it.\u00a0 I have encountered this approach when working with leaders and their teams.\u00a0 Assessing teams provides insight into how the team interacts and how the leader interacts with the team.\u00a0 There are many leaders out there who seem preoccupied with the latest buzzwords and corporate speak.<\/p>\n<p>A waste of time in my opinion.\u00a0 Apparently the author shares this view:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMy leadership philosophy is to optimally leverage the passions of my people such that at the end of the day we maximize employee engagement to get them to think outside the box and synergistically drive value-added activities in a profit-maximizing way that is a win-win for our people, our shareholders and our customers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt sounds great,\u201d says leadership trainer Mike Figliuolo. \u201cIt is polysyllabic. It uses words with long definitions. I have only one question: what the hell does it mean?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amen.\u00a0 I have no idea what that means either and I have heard that type of mush in many interviews.\u00a0 I prefer this anecdote from the end of the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The boss went first, emphasizing the importance of teamwork, trust and having fun. Other participants took their turns and suddenly buzzwords were being tossed out like parade candy. One team member was uncomfortable with the emptiness of what was being said, however, so when it was his turn to speak he said simply, \u201cMy leadership philosophy is simple. Say what you mean. Do what you say.\u201d He then turned and took his seat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh does this Sales &amp; Marketing Management article hit me where I live.\u00a0 The gist of the article is the corporate speak many leaders use in hopes of sounding\u2026smarter?\u00a0 I really don\u2019t know why they do it.\u00a0 I have encountered this approach when working with leaders and their teams.\u00a0 Assessing teams provides insight into how the team interacts and how the leader interacts with the team.\u00a0 There are many leaders out there who seem preoccupied with the latest buzzwords and corporate speak. A waste of time in my opinion.\u00a0 Apparently the author shares this view: \u201cMy leadership philosophy is to optimally leverage the passions of my people such that at&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2012\/06\/leadership-jargon\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,31],"tags":[31,1670,105,369,97],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-Es","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2534,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions\/2534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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