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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WWII started in 1939.
Roosevelt - set the stage for bankrupting the country with the New Deal. Kennedy - Made sure Vietnam was kept going. Clinton - well, Clinton, blue dress... Yeah, great examples. And pairing Reagan with Hitler is an impressively disingenuous move. You are either 14 years old, or stuck at 14 intellectually.
For many years this is how LANL management operated.
A students try to hire A or A+ students. B students hire C students. We good now?
Ok, this is just a metaphor, it does not actually mean "A" students, it just means outstanding people appreciate and support other outstanding people because they are confident that they can get job elsewhere that is just as good or better. B students are not actually B students they are just people of limited skill and ability that feel threatened by better people who are actually valuable to the organization so they don't want top people around them. They generally want the worst people around them so they feel secure. Yes organizations are always in danger of the race to the bottom as may a destroyed institute can attest. As for the NNSA labs...well LANL was once a great institute but not anymore.