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3 days agoNew Research: Some People Really Do Fall for Corporate BS
Employees impressed by corporate gibberish perform poorly in decision-making and confuse it with business savvy.
Stop for a second, if you have bandwidth, because there's a word we'd like to flag: synergy. It sounds like it means something good, but it's unclear exactly what. It's something your bosses might say. There's pretty much a 0% chance you've said "synergy" in casual conversation. "It's the ultimate buzzword. It's the one that everybody thinks of when they think of business jargon," says Erica Brozovsky, a sociolinguist who hosts the PBS series Otherwords.