ManagementSpeak: I’ll have to check with the leadership team to see if your idea makes sense.

Translation: Your idea doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in a campfire.

Long-time correspondent Henry Hojnacki explains what “makes sense” means, which is to say, his translation makes sense.

“The scale, properly speaking, does not permit the measure of the intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore cannot be measured as linear surfaces are measured.” – Alfred Binet, co-inventor of the IQ test