atw: Re: No More Thought Showers

Great article - thanx!
We can only hope that the USofA might wise up and follow suit behind the 
poms, but then the corporate incompetents will be unable to hide behind 
their meaningless corporate jargon, so it is unlikely.  I did not see my 
all time favorite listed,  How do we measure our success?
I suppose we can take comfort that the town council who told staff to use 
the term "thought showers" instead of "brainstorming" did not find the idea 
to be golden.  Or maybe s/he did and therein lies the rub.
MNMary
On 6/22/2008 5:15:18 PM, austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 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 p  

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