Setting: a sunny office on an early-spring afternoon. Mojo the dog is sleeping on a pillow in the corner. Liz is sitting at the conference table. The phone rings. Liz: I hate it, but it's like kudzu.

There are plenty of things your coworkers say that drive you up the wall. There are plenty of things that you say that drive your coworkers up the wall. But, it turns out there are some corporate ...

I detest jargon at a visceral level. Not only do I understand how much it sabotages our communication, but I feel how ugly it is, how it stultifies the soul. It does not deserve to live. Hopefully, ...

Over the eight years I’ve spent in VC, I’ve witnessed the consistently challenging vocabulary the industry creates. Venture capital is an industry full of big words, from technical acronyms to lofty ...

Imagine you’re hiring for an important position in your company and two candidates come in to interview. One peppers his sentences with jargon. The other speaks plainly in everyday language. What can ...

In content marketing and in journalism, the word jargon has come to be used mostly as an insult. It's a label that people put on unfamiliar language they dismiss as gibberish. Jargon has another ...

Frequent, Unexplained Jargon Total jargon use during appointments ranged from 0 to 26, with a mean of 5.40 instances of use during each encounter, the authors report. The mean use of distinct jargon ...

Do you use jargon at work? If you do, you might find yourself ‘old school’. Those coming into the workplace are not as keen on your ‘blue sky thinking’. The AI career tool Kickresume has considered ...

When Sawan is finished showing his flow charts and listing his financials, Lu Ann Reeb puts on her glasses and consults her notes. “What we lost in what we just saw was that hugely compelling factor ...

I don’t know about you but I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve heard people in the startup world string meaningless words together. “Enable best-of-breed convergence,” and “synthesize ...

Dr. Bernard Lown knows firsthand about the inherent dangers of using jargon. One day, before he became a renowned cardiologist and won a Nobel Peace Prize, Lown was completing his medical fellowship ...

Doctor consults with patient. A team of researchers affiliated with the University of Central Florida in Orlando listened to audio recordings of patient encounters and found that less than half of all ...