atw: Re: No More Thought Showers

This is brilliant.
At my current workplace, someone said 'reveueing'.  I asked what they meant
and they weren't sure!  They thought it may mean income producing.
Bob Trussler

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Janice Gelb <Janice.Gelb@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> According to a CNN report at:
>
>
> http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/06/21/britain.jargonbusters.ap/index.html
>
>
> LONDON, England (AP) -- British bureaucrats have been
> warned: no more synergies, stakeholders or sustainable
> communities.
>
> The body that represents the country's local authorities has
> told its members to stop using management buzzwords, saying
> they confuse people and prevent residents from understanding
> what local governments do. [snip]
>
> The list includes the popular but vague term "empowerment;"
> "coterminosity," a situation in which two organizations
> oversee the same geographical area; and "synergies,"
> combinations in which the whole is greater than the sum
> of its parts.
>
> Officials were told to ditch the term "revenue stream"
> for income, as well as the imprecise "sustainable communities."
> The association also said councils should stop referring
> to local residents as "customers" or "stakeholders." [snip]
>
> The association sent its letter after reports that one
> town council had told staff to use the term "thought
> showers" instead of "brainstorming."
>
> Officials at Tunbridge Wells council in southern England
> felt brainstorming might offend people with epilepsy, a
> condition that involves periodic electrical storms inside
> the brain.
>
> However, the National Society for Epilepsy said it had
> surveyed its members and they did not find the term offensive.
>
> "Brainstorming" is not on the Local Government Association's
> list.
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