From the Huffington Post Why Workplace Jargon Is A Big Problem http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/25/work-words_n_5159868.html?utm_hp_ref=business&ir=Business When we replace a specific task with a vague expression, we grant the task more magnitude than it deserves. If we don't describe an activity plainly, it seems less like an easily achievable goal and more like a cloudy state of existence that fills unknowable amounts of time. A fog of fast and empty language has seeped into the workplace. I say it's time we air it out, making room for simple, concrete words, and, therefore, more deliberate actions. By striking the following 26 words from your speech, I think you'll find that you're not quite as overwhelmed as you thought you were. Count the number that LLNLs mangers use. touch base circle back bandwidth - impactful - utilize - table the discussion deep dive - engagement - viral value-add - one-sheet deliverable - work product - incentivise - take it to the ...
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I doubt Chu will be able to hold his position in DOE much longer. He's become an embarrassment to Obama, who is facing a tough re-election campaign.
Dr. Chu is about to take part of the fall for the Solyndra-gate fiasco and be "thrown under the bus".
DOE is a turkey pen. The stumblebum bureaucrats humble the best.
Time to eliminate the -- in the inimitable style of Governor Rick Perry -- "ah, ah, ah, what was that third one........oh, yeh, the DOE".
Its staff is indeed forgetable.
Take the Nuclear weapons complex to a new agency and junk the remainder.
The organization is asked to do far more than it is capable of.
November 15, 2011 10:12 PM
I completely disagree. The problem is that the "organization" has been relegated to a profit organization with the bar (PBIs) so low that it is no longer being challenged. The analogy is the Manhattan Project assigned to perform validation of Newton's Laws using "shoes that grip", management getting bonuses and flashy sports cars for every test or analysis that is performed, and oversight going from one person (General Groves) to several thousand wind-tipped suits (NNSA).
Chu may not have sent thousands to their deaths and evaded falling bombs by seconds, but my guess is, he is simply too self-assured to be much affected by the opinions of those posturing before him. For he has learned to control himself.
As we competent few know and the hoi polloi still wonders, "Who is John Barth?"
November 23, 2011 12:41 PM
Only warmed-over pseudo-intellectual hippies care. No one else gives a crap. Chu is out along with Obama.