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Description: "Talk Normal is a must read for all of us who experience the coded and sometimes humorous languages so frequently heard in management meetings."
Professor Cary Cooper, CBE, Distinguished Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health, Lancaster University.
Talk Normal is about corporate jargon, waffle and poor business communication. Full of shocking examples, it will help you to improve your own communication style whilst navigating the nightmare of management speak at work.
Talk Normal is an attempt to find out. Based on the author’s blog, www.talknormal.co.uk it’s full of excruciating examples of corporate jargon, and it will help you to steer a path to better communication, whilst coping with the worst excesses of management speak at work.
Contents: Introduction • Talk Normal: Why we bother • The meaning of Talknormalism • Trying to Sound clever • Jargon: can’t live with it, can’t live without it • Catching jargon • Say what you mean, mean what you say • The problem of word obesity • Deceived by weasels • Talknormalise me • Office life • Work/life balance • Things have changed around here • How HR ruined your life • What they say to you, and what they really mean • Talknormalise me • Mediocre media • The old school • The explainers • The entertainers • The socialisers • Talknormalise me • Tell and Sell • Buy More S**t or We’re All F**ked • Happy talking • Shiny new things • The buzzword wars • Talknormalise meISBN - 9780749463649
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Pages : 184
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