Why do people in meetings at work keep talking about -thinking outside the box-? Why does my boss say we need to -get all our ducks in a row-? And why does my project manager want to -touch base with me offline-? If it-s all a mystery to you, don-t worry - LEP is here to decode all this weird language. If you work in an office in an English-speaking country I-m sure you-ll have heard of -corporate jargon- or -management speak-. This is one of the things that people complain about the most, in offices all around the UK. It seems that managers, bosses, project managers, corporate leaders all speak a strange version of English full of bizarre idioms, over-complicated metaphors and unnecessarily big words. But what is -management speak-, why do people use it, and why do people find it so annoying? In this episode I-m joined by former Apple employee Paul Taylor as we -peel back the onion- and decode the phenomenon of management speak. Listen to find out all the details and to learn some management speak in the process. Click here for transcripts and notes http://wp.me/p4IuUx-5aE Sign up to LEP Premium on Acast+ and add the premium episodes to a podcast app on your phone. https://plus.acast.com/s/teacherluke. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.