<story><title>Empty and Misleading Communication Takes over Organizations (2020)</title><url>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2631787720929704</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>2-718-281-828</author><text>Few months ago I was asked by a colleague to contribute an inspiration for a company development workshop. Frankly speaking - I am pretty damn disillusioned by now and couldn&amp;#x27;t come up with anything meaningful. He insisted, so I googled specifically for &amp;quot;coporate buzzwords&amp;quot; and came up with this:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Further establishing a welcoming and diverse work environment encouraging synergy and collaboration by committing to a common set of strategic goals.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;That statement was unanimously received very well and nobody realized that this is basically just sarcasm in action.&lt;p&gt;Practically speaking my colleagues are all very smart (academics, PhDs all over the place) and should be able to detect bullshit bingo. At the bottom line though whether or not to go actively and motivatedly along with this ... bullshit makes a very practical difference with regard to boni. So, I don&amp;#x27;t know. Maybe it&amp;#x27;s me who&amp;#x27;s the idiot.&lt;p&gt;In short: Bullshit bingo&amp;#x27;ing is also often quite lucrative.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kqr</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s popular because it doesn&amp;#x27;t ruffle any feathers.&lt;p&gt;I heard somewhere at some point that for organisational values to be useful, they need to provide guidance in making decisions. They need to be trade-offs. They need to reject something in favour of something else.&lt;p&gt;So, rephrasing your bullshit bingo:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;We are now pursuing a cultural shift: we will value good attitudes and difference of opinion over efficiency. We will start to ignore some of our personal goals and instead emphasise the goals we have in common.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This is actionable. It can be used to choose a path to proceed when efficiency is pitted against diversity. It actually says something.&lt;p&gt;And yeah, it&amp;#x27;s going to suck if you don&amp;#x27;t agree. Better that than meaningless drivel.</text></comment>
<story><title>Empty and Misleading Communication Takes over Organizations (2020)</title><url>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2631787720929704</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>2-718-281-828</author><text>Few months ago I was asked by a colleague to contribute an inspiration for a company development workshop. Frankly speaking - I am pretty damn disillusioned by now and couldn&amp;#x27;t come up with anything meaningful. He insisted, so I googled specifically for &amp;quot;coporate buzzwords&amp;quot; and came up with this:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Further establishing a welcoming and diverse work environment encouraging synergy and collaboration by committing to a common set of strategic goals.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;That statement was unanimously received very well and nobody realized that this is basically just sarcasm in action.&lt;p&gt;Practically speaking my colleagues are all very smart (academics, PhDs all over the place) and should be able to detect bullshit bingo. At the bottom line though whether or not to go actively and motivatedly along with this ... bullshit makes a very practical difference with regard to boni. So, I don&amp;#x27;t know. Maybe it&amp;#x27;s me who&amp;#x27;s the idiot.&lt;p&gt;In short: Bullshit bingo&amp;#x27;ing is also often quite lucrative.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Infernal</author><text>&amp;gt; Practically speaking my colleagues are all very smart (academics, PhDs all over the place) and should be able to detect bullshit bingo.&lt;p&gt;Who says they didn’t detect it? Welcoming, diversity, strategic, collaboration - these are religious tenets that are not allowed to be questioned in any professional context. Much more likely to have been an “emperor has no clothes” situation.</text></comment>