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From 'opening the kimono' to 'incentivizing', the war against corporate buzzwords rages on

  • Written by Roslyn Petelin, Associate Professor in Writing, The University of Queensland
From 'opening the kimono' to 'incentivizing', the war against corporate buzzwords rages onMai Lam/The Conversation NY-BD-CC, CC BY-SA

Buzzword bingo arrived in the contemporary workplace in the early ’90s, as a way of ridiculing the prevalence of management-speak. To play it, employees prepare cards containing some of the more dreaded terms, then tick them off when their colleagues use them, which tends to be in meetings.

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