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buzzword Vox populi A generic name for a term that has been recently incorporated into the argot of a particular field How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Haneberg serves up some attention-grabbing terms like "saves" (feedback that helps prevent problems) and "chunking" (carving out blocks of time in which you focus on just one thing), and most of the book, while conversational, does seem to spotlight the latest buzzwords on office behavior. Even before I read the book, I watched him on Book TV, and the buzzwords of his ideological underpinnings--"black accountability," "psychology of dependency" and "victimization"--were spewed without interruption as he talked to caller after caller. In business, buzzwords are the inevitable result of a number of people working together and speaking the same industry-specific language--and modifying that language to suit their needs. |
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