Forget political correctness. Business jargon is one of the last bastions of old-fashioned, rough and tumble crudity. Little surprise, then, that boardroom buzzwords sometimes veer into racism, sexism or — in the case of “open…
Most buzzwords are new terms driven by the latest developments in business, technology and culture, but a special few are older words given new life. “Sea change” is a good example, moving from Shakespeare to journalists and ev…
Corporate buzzwords tend to come in and out of style, their popularity waxing and waning with the rise and fall of new management strategies and boardroom wordsmiths. The latest hot term has moved from the world of gambling to …
Buzzwords have a life cycle, gathering momentum until they grow common, then overused, then old. For “wheelhouse,” a term that is currently cresting the popularity wave, this path has taken a long and curvy route, through baseb…