Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs | Cornell Chronicle
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Employees who are impressed by vague corporate-speak like “synergistic leadership,” or “growth-hacking paradigms” may struggle with practical decision-making, a new Cornell study into “corporate BS” reveals.

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“Corporate bullshit is a specific style of communication that uses confusing, abstract buzzwords in a functionally misleading way,” said Littrell, a postdoctoral researcher in the College of Arts and Sciences. “Unlike technical jargon, which can sometimes make office communication a little easier, corporate bullshit confuses rather than clarifies. It may sound impressive, but it is semantically empty.”

  • phoenixarise@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    4 days ago

    I’m sorry, but “synergizing” and “paradigm”, aren’t these just buzzwords that dumb people use to sound important? Not that I’m accusing them of anything like that—

    I’m fired, aren’t I?

    • SleeplessCityLights@programming.devEnglish
      7·
      3 days ago

      Paradigm by itself is useful in computer science. A lot of corpo speak comes from terms initially created for agile, but eventually scrum masters were not the engineers and the useful words that were used a describers are now used as content. Agile is a mistake.

    • osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org
      16·
      4 days ago

      The worst part about it is that if they were actually good at that, they would be extremely valuable. Getting different, unrelated groups who all function in different ways pointing in the same direction is like herding cats, and cat herders are highly sought after in most industries.

      It’s just anyone who’s good at it would never call it ‘synergizing paradigms’.

    • limelight79@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      3 days ago

      Oh yes. The rest of you, get to work on thinking of a name. Like Poochie, but more proactive.

    • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      I’m fired, aren’t I?

      Now now, we don’t use that kind of language here, this is a family company, because our bonds create greater amplification of the synergies between the aligned areas. HR Family Relations will have a constructive discussion about your behavior paradigm within the family