Still Using Those Tired Old Office Buzzwords?
“Paradigm shift.” “Value-add.” “Win-win.” “Customer-centric.” “Outside-the-box.” “Leverage our core competencies.” Clichéd terms like these buzz around the office like flies at a hot summer picnic… and they’re just as annoying.
Language is alive, and when it’s not, it’s time to liven things up. Here are some fresh examples (just for fun):
1. Hallway Trapprehension
The anxiety we feel at the approach of a coworker we’ve already passed multiple times in the hall in a single day (as we fret over something new and witty to say).
2. Shingling
Excessively pitching our kids’ candy bars, cookies, bowl-a-thon pledge requests, or anything else to coworkers, especially when a child’s value as a human being is apparently at stake.
3. Zombieland
The in-and-out, slow-eye-flutter, head-nodding state people fall into in many after-lunch meetings.
4. Octoboss
Supervisors who clasp onto so many tasks and special projects that subordinates often get deflected by an inky cloud whenever they approach… as the supervisor escapes.
5. Embuggeration
The act of filling coworkers’ email with huge files, impenetrably convoluted or lengthy messages, irrelevant Reply All copies, or any such encumbrance that causes said coworkers’ productivity to slow to a deathly crawl.
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New Rigor in the Arguments for Corporate Social Responsibility
The most lasting rebuke of corporate social responsibility came from Milton Friedman, the small of stature economist who even in death continues to cast a huge intellectual shadow.
In September 1970 Friedman wrote “The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase Profit,” for the New York Times Magazine. In it, he argued persuasively that corporate social responsibility was just so much twaddle, socialism in a corporate wrapper that undermines a free society. Businesses that practiced corporate responsibility were playing Robin Hood with someone else’s money.
“The discussions of the ‘social responsibilities of business,’” Friedman wrote, “are notable for their analytical looseness and lack of rigor. What does it mean to say that ‘business’ has responsibilities? Only people have responsibilities.”
Instead, companies should maximize their profits and return capital to shareholders so that individuals could then donate to whatever cause they wished to, or not. For companies to do anything besides maximize profits was simply immoral, Friedman wrote.
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Why Ethical Marketing Is Important To Your Internet Business
Do you value your reputation on the Internet? Let me ask this a different way, do you think it’s important that people trust you when you say something online? In my opinion ethical marketing is everything when it comes to how you go about your Internet marketing efforts.
Is this ethical marketing?
I saw a post in the Warrior Forum where the writer listed the link to an article showing a way to make $100 a day online advertising on Craig’s list using an affiliate dating site.
The thing is the person is a guy posing as a girl wanting to meet people. They go for pay per click income by setting up a bogus account with a dating site.
What was interesting to me is the writer was pumped up about the idea and every response was from people who were not comfortable trying it or did try it and felt bad about tricking people who actually replied to their ad on the dating site.
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