307. The Mystery of Corporate Jargon & Management Speak (Part 2) with Paul Taylor

-Peeling back the onion- on management speak and corporate jargon. This episode focuses on defining and explaining the examples of language you heard at the beginning of the last episode. You-ll hear Paul and me going through all the phrases and by the end you should be able to understand it all, and you could create your own version of bullsh*t bingo! Click here to read definitions and to print some bulls*t bingo cards http://wp.me/p4IuUx-5cf 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.

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307. The Mystery of Corporate Jargon & Management Speak (Part 2) with Paul Taylor

-Peeling back the onion- on management speak and corporate jargon. This episode focuses on defining and explaining the examples of language you heard at the beginning of the last episode. You-ll hear Paul and me going through all the phrases and by the end you should be able to understand it all, and you could create your own version of bullsh*t bingo! Click here to read definitions and to print some bulls*t bingo cards http://wp.me/p4IuUx-5cf- Sign up to LEP Premium on Acast+ https://plus.acast.com/s/teacherluke.

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307. The Mystery of Corporate Jargon & Management Speak (Part 2) with Paul Taylor

-Peeling back the onion- on management speak and corporate jargon. This episode focuses on defining and explaining the examples of language you heard at the beginning of the last episode. You-ll hear Paul and me going through all the phrases and by the end you should be able to understand it all, and you could create your own version of bullsh*t bingo! Click here to read definitions and to print some bulls*t bingo cards http://wp.me/p4IuUx-5cf Sign up to LEP Premium on Acast+ https://plus.acast.com/s/teacherluke.

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306. The Mystery of Corporate Jargon & Management Speak (Part 1) with Paul Taylor

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+ https://plus.acast.com/s/teacherluke.

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306. The Mystery of Corporate Jargon & Management Speak (Part 1) with Paul Taylor

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+ https://plus.acast.com/s/teacherluke.

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306. The Mystery of Corporate Jargon & Management Speak (Part 1) with Paul Taylor

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.

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305. Film Club: Back To The Future (Part 2)

In this episode I-m going to talk about: lessons we can learn from the story, a few fun facts, the 2015 predictions, how the DeLorean works, theories about time travel and some temporal paradoxes in the story. So strap in, let-s go back to the future again. Click here for a transcript - more information http://wp.me/p4IuUx-5bi- #backtothefuture #timetravel #2015predictions 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.

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305. Back To The Future (Part 2)

In this episode I-m going to talk about: lessons we can learn from the story, a few fun facts, the 2015 predictions, how the DeLorean works, theories about time travel and some temporal paradoxes in the story. So strap in, let-s go back to the future again. Click here for a transcript - more information http://wp.me/p4IuUx-5bi- #backtothefuture #timetravel #2015predictions Sign up to LEP Premium on Acast+ https://plus.acast.com/s/teacherluke.

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305. Back To The Future (Part 2)

In this episode I-m going to talk about: lessons we can learn from the story, a few fun facts, the 2015 predictions, how the DeLorean works, theories about time travel and some temporal paradoxes in the story. So strap in, let-s go back to the future again. Click here for a transcript - more information http://wp.me/p4IuUx-5bi- #backtothefuture #timetravel #2015predictions Sign up to LEP Premium on Acast+ https://plus.acast.com/s/teacherluke.

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304. Back To The Future (Part 1)

Hello listeners, welcome to Luke-s Film Club, this is one of those episodes of Luke-s English podcast in which we focus on a classic moment from the movies. This one is-an episode about Back to the Future, which-is one of my all time favourite films and I-m not alone because it-s-one of the most popular films of the last few decades, all over the world. It-s a really entertaining and fun film, which-also contains some-sub-texts related to the complexities of time travel as well as a few visions of the future. Also, in the film-s sequel, the main characters Marty McFly and Doc Brown end up travelling into the future - and to what date? October 21, 2015. That-s today (when recording this). So it seems to be the perfect moment to do an episode of Luke-s Film Club, devoted to this modern classic. This is basically international Back to the Future day, and there-s only one! So, this has to be the day on which I record this episode. This episode mainly deals with the plot of the 3 Back To The Future films. The next episode will deal with other stuff like future predictions, time travel and technical details of the DeLorean. Click here for a transcript: http://wp.me/p4IuUx-5at- Sign up to LEP Premium on Acast+ https://plus.acast.com/s/teacherluke.

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