To no one’s surprise, “reaching out” is the reigning champ with 6,117 appearances, shortly followed by follow-ups of all ...

Jargon is all around us. Everyone is moving the needle, pivoting and thinking outside the square. Ironically the term thinking outside the square was first used in the 1970s, so if you are still using ...

Doctor consults with patient. A team of researchers affiliated with the University of Central Florida in Orlando listened to audio recordings of patient encounters and found that less than half of all ...

You can use lots of words that don’t mean anything or you can speak like a real person and be a more effective communicator. Listen up, everyone who’s leveraging a new paradigm to monetize and ...

(Original Caption) YOU'VE HEARD ABOUT—AND HERE IT IS ...THE OFTEN SPOKEN ANCIENT INDIAN PROVERB, 'HEAR NO EVIL, SEE NO EVIL AND SPEAK NO EVIL' IS SHOWN HERE IN THE FLESH. IT'S THE NEWEST GAG OF YINDI, ...

When we want to impress others with how knowledgeable we are on a particular subject, buzzwords and phrases sometimes come in handy. Every field has them—fashionable terms that can morph into annoying ...

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.

It's unlikely your colleagues are spending their days lining up a row of ducks or attempting to herd a group of cats—and yet in corporate America people are using these phrases every day. In a ...