{"id":23353,"date":"2008-02-22T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/02\/22\/microspeak-assorted-babble\/"},"modified":"2008-02-22T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T10:00:00","slug":"microspeak-assorted-babble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20080222-00\/?p=23353","title":{"rendered":"Microspeak: Assorted babble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Here are some phrases I jotted down during a meeting. I don&#8217;t even know what meeting it was. (They were jotted on some scratch paper.) These don&#8217;t count so much as Microspeak as they do just assorted management babble. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;inspiring sustained high performance&#8221; <\/li>\n<li>&#8220;fostering agility and resilience&#8221; <\/li>\n<li>&#8220;clarifying the journey&#8221; <\/li>\n<li>&#8220;unleashing talent&#8221; <\/li>\n<li>&#8220;a new or unanticipated experiment&#8221; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> Sometimes I wish management would speak in plain English. But then the rest of us might realize that they don&#8217;t know what they&#8217;re talking about. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some phrases I jotted down during a meeting. I don&#8217;t even know what meeting it was. (They were jotted on some scratch paper.) These don&#8217;t count so much as Microspeak as they do just assorted management babble. &#8220;inspiring sustained high performance&#8221; &#8220;fostering agility and resilience&#8221; &#8220;clarifying the journey&#8221; &#8220;unleashing talent&#8221; &#8220;a new or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[105,103],"class_list":["post-23353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-microspeak","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Here are some phrases I jotted down during a meeting. I don&#8217;t even know what meeting it was. (They were jotted on some scratch paper.) These don&#8217;t count so much as Microspeak as they do just assorted management babble. &#8220;inspiring sustained high performance&#8221; &#8220;fostering agility and resilience&#8221; &#8220;clarifying the journey&#8221; &#8220;unleashing talent&#8221; &#8220;a new or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}