{"id":418,"date":"2005-11-12T00:06:30","date_gmt":"2005-11-11T22:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/wp_1\/?p=418"},"modified":"2005-11-12T01:23:14","modified_gmt":"2005-11-11T23:23:14","slug":"jargon-as-organizational-pathology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/2005\/11\/jargon-as-organizational-pathology\/","title":{"rendered":"Jargon as Organizational Pathology &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh well, this is so right on point &#8230; Stephen Baker in BusinessWeek on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/the_thread\/blogspotting\/archives\/2005\/11\/why_jargon_lead.html\">miseries of jargon<\/a> (add this to the big list where nih-syndrome, group think, and a bunch of other organizational pathologies reside).<\/p>\n<p>Notice also that innovation is hindered by jargon: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Why so? Breakthroughs occur at the borders between discliplines and cultures. Think of the advances in biotech and nanotechnology, and even digital media. It&#8217;s people with different specialities&#8211;biologists, physicists, guitar virtuosos, computer scientists&#8211;blending their knowledge. They need common languages.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let me add another antidote: generalists, people with a diverse work experience and education who can facilitate and transmit between different lingos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh well, this is so right on point &#8230; Stephen Baker in BusinessWeek on the miseries of jargon (add this to the big list where nih-syndrome, group think, and a bunch of other organizational pathologies reside). Notice also that innovation is hindered by jargon: Why so? Breakthroughs occur at the borders between discliplines and cultures. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,4],"tags":[54,304,26,305,564],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418"}],"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=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}