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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PBIs, Baby! It's all that matters and all that NNSA really cares about. BTW, have you noticed that not a single PBI involves science and research? Message heard, NNSA, loud and clear.
Energy policy?
Nuclear power resolved?
Weapons complex stabilized?.
Renewable energy lab?
DOE mediocrity eliminated?.
Spent fuel storage resolved?
Gas prices are sky high?
The best small automotive diesels thrive in...Asia, Europe, South America?
Large scale ethanol for auto use?
The LLCs still exist.
Is he trying? White roads? Really? Is he the Mandarin's scientific curio?
Even O'bama tried something.
Chu earned his Nobel as a scientist. Bravo. It may or may not be relevant when it comes to leading/coercing/enduring the bureaucracy.
Many of the topics listed are broad policy issues with many non-technical influences. I think Chu is more sincerely interested in, and knowledgeable of, energy policy than any other Secretary until one goes back to Schlesinger. The nation has floundered around on nuclear power, spent fuel, etc. for decades. Chu was suppose to resolve that in two years? Large scale ethanol is as much about agricultural subsidies and trade policy toward Brazil.
He's trying, but D.C. is probably giving him a big headache.
People follow leaders, politicians form consensus.
If he said. "We failed. DOE is useless, it needs to go." and began shutting it down, it would at least begin somethingpositive, and by the way, not hurt the country one bit.
Yes!? needs want to do. It is time to sit on a pot or find bathroom. To post to drunk by 10pm.
January 31, 2011 6:41 AM
Wow, what?? Nothing in your post applies to the post you reference. Maybe you are the one with the head in the toilet? Still drunk at 7:00 am?
January 29, 2011 9:34 PM
Nothing compared to the headache he's giving us!!