{"id":383,"date":"2005-09-15T08:21:10","date_gmt":"2005-09-15T06:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/wp_1\/index.php\/archive\/the-language-of-management-is-devoid-of-meaning\/"},"modified":"2005-09-15T08:21:10","modified_gmt":"2005-09-15T06:21:10","slug":"the-language-of-management-is-devoid-of-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/2005\/09\/the-language-of-management-is-devoid-of-meaning\/","title":{"rendered":"The language of management is devoid of meaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed a brilliant essay on <em>managerial speak<\/em> and the complexities of management practice, namely matters of language, some extracts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[in Management] language has become untethered from normal meaning. Sometimes it floats free of reality altogether.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>is supported by a comprehensive literature in which imaginary concepts and attributes are earnestly described and referenced, as if they really existed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Preventing ourselves falling into the parallel universe is partly about questioning management&#8217;s self-replicating assumptions. But it&#8217;s also a matter of language.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Find some more gems in <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/business\/story\/0,6903,1557681,00.html\">the Observer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed a brilliant essay on managerial speak and the complexities of management practice, namely matters of language, some extracts: [in Management] language has become untethered from normal meaning. Sometimes it floats free of reality altogether. and is supported by a comprehensive literature in which imaginary concepts and attributes are earnestly described and referenced, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[262,263,264,104,265,266,564],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}