Business Babble: A Cynic's Dictionary of Corporate Jargon - Hardcover

Olive, David

9780471547891: Business Babble: A Cynic's Dictionary of Corporate Jargon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471547891 ISBN 13: 9780471547891

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1991

Business Babble blame, No one is suggesting you re to phrase. Translation: You are to blame. You will make it up to me. (See fault) busymeet n. A pow-wow that fills the empty hours that might otherwise be occupied with getting some work done. debt n. A way of postponing until tomorrow obligations you cannot meet today. friend n. An enemy with whom you have yet to do business. laughter curve n. The trajectory by which an executive reaches the point during a presentation when his or her proposal has attracted so much ridicule that it is pointless to continue. plausible deniability n. The act of keeping the CEO informed only of the ends, in order that he or she later can deny knowledge of the means

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About the Author:

About the author-- DAVID OLIVE is an award-winning journalist whose business articles and book reviews are published widely. Editor of the Globe and Mails Report on Business magazine, he has been a senior writer at three business journals and is the author of Just Rewards: The Case for Ethical Reform in Business.

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