COMMENTARY If I had to write one wildly popular business article -- just one -- it would have to be about the horrors of business jargon. For some reason, it makes people crazy. But here's the thing.

On the latest episode of ‘The New Way We Work,’ Fast Company editors debate the worst business jargon of all time and decide which word needs to be eliminated from our vocabulary. Click to expand.

I detest jargon at a visceral level. Not only do I understand how much it sabotages our communication, but I feel how ugly it is, how it stultifies the soul. It does not deserve to live. Hopefully, ...

My dad and my brothers were into baseball and football. I picked up some of the terminology by osmosis as a kid. When I hit the business world, I knew what some of the standard business jargon meant ...

If you’re using terms like “make hay” and “peel the onion” in your job ads, stop. Just stop. Even words like “dynamic” and “self-starter” can trip a reader up. According to an analysis of 6.3 million ...

Business jargon is annoying–but startup jargon? That’s on an entirely different level. It’s not just annoying to the people who have been around the block a few times like venture capitalists and ...

Anne Curzan, English professor at the University of Michigan, studies the evolution of language. While many of us roll our eyes at bizspeak — from synergy to value-add to... Anne Curzan, English ...

One of my favorite leadership writers is Bob Sutton, author of "The No Asshole Rule" and his new book "Good Boss, Bad Boss". In a recent interview with me he spoke about "Jargon Monoxide"- the ...

Pitch determines your positioning and positioning determines your startup’s success. Naturally, there is a lot of advice on how to pitch your startup. Among this advice, one common suggestion is to ...

Frequent, Unexplained Jargon Total jargon use during appointments ranged from 0 to 26, with a mean of 5.40 instances of use during each encounter, the authors report. The mean use of distinct jargon ...