ManagementSpeak: It’s a quick and easy process.
Translation: It’s neither quick nor easy and you will be frustrated at every turn.
KJR Club member Jim Winston reveals what quick and easy usually turns into.
Month: January 2009
Methodologies are fine, so long as they aren’t processes
Where does an author or speaker’s responsibility to be clear stop and the audience’s responsibility to comprehend begin?
A number of years ago an official in Washington DC used the term “niggardly” in a sentence. He was chastised, not because he had used a racial epithet but because he should have known some of the people who heard him might have thought it was a racial epithet.
While not as extreme as this example, I received a very angry e-mail from a long-time subscriber because of last week’s column.