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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November 30, 2015 at 6:27 PM.
This is partially true, however keeping his mouth shut has been a form of selling his soul, at the same time it has also been a way of keeping his sanity and trying to do the best he can in managing a steady decline. Since 2000 the labs have been dying and are now just a bizarre and strange place where only the corrupt, criminal, soulless, dishonest, and utterly desperate thrive. The real talent has for the most part left, perhaps it has only been 5-6% a year but after 15 years we now have the the current so-called workforce, yet, there is minute and silent number left who keep a scant form of fleeting dignity trying to serve the nation. Goldstein may lie somewhere in that dwindling twilight and if this is true amazing that he was chosen director LLNL.
The President of Sandia National Laboratories does not have a Ph.D.: Jill Hruby
Adam Rowen a former manager of the Materials Chemistry Department at Sandia Livermore does not have a Ph.D. either.
The 3 individuals at Sandia are the first ever Vice Presidents without a Ph.D. in Science or Engineering to lead technical divisions at Sandia. A quick search on the internet shows that Adam Rowen went to a school in New Mexico.
December 3, 2015 at 4:08 AM
I didn't "get one." But I did become one.