Comments on: Want to be a leader? Ditch that framework and roadmap http://www.dorisandbertie.com/goodcopybadcopy/2009/05/14/want-to-be-a-leader-ditch-that-framework-and-roadmap/ A blog about good business writing and bad. Especially the bad. Because there's so much more of the bad. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:46:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Clare Lynch http://www.dorisandbertie.com/goodcopybadcopy/2009/05/14/want-to-be-a-leader-ditch-that-framework-and-roadmap/comment-page-1/#comment-1048 Clare Lynch Fri, 15 May 2009 15:11:59 +0000 http://www.daccreative.co.uk/goodcopybadcopy/?p=155#comment-1048 Thanks, Brad - the post was inspired by one of your comments on a previous post. I think managers resort to using impenetrable phrases when they're feeling insecure. It's the verbal equivalent of putting your little finger in the air when holding a teacup - you think you're being posh but you're actually embarrassing yourself socially. Can you imagine if, instead of coining phrases such as "yes, we can" and "the change we need", Barack Obama had said he intended to create a conceptual framework for implementing a roadmap for change? Somehow, I don't think he'd have made it to president! Thanks, Brad – the post was inspired by one of your comments on a previous post.

I think managers resort to using impenetrable phrases when they’re feeling insecure. It’s the verbal equivalent of putting your little finger in the air when holding a teacup – you think you’re being posh but you’re actually embarrassing yourself socially.

Can you imagine if, instead of coining phrases such as “yes, we can” and “the change we need”, Barack Obama had said he intended to create a conceptual framework for implementing a roadmap for change? Somehow, I don’t think he’d have made it to president!

]]> By: Brad Shorr http://www.dorisandbertie.com/goodcopybadcopy/2009/05/14/want-to-be-a-leader-ditch-that-framework-and-roadmap/comment-page-1/#comment-1047 Brad Shorr Fri, 15 May 2009 13:52:29 +0000 http://www.daccreative.co.uk/goodcopybadcopy/?p=155#comment-1047 Clare, Bravo. I never could understand the thought process that leads people to think using impenetrable phrases is table stakes for being thought of as a leader. Effective and successful business leaders I know - and I've been lucky enough to know many over the years - think, speak, and write clearly ... and expect the same from those who work for and with them. Clare, Bravo. I never could understand the thought process that leads people to think using impenetrable phrases is table stakes for being thought of as a leader. Effective and successful business leaders I know – and I’ve been lucky enough to know many over the years – think, speak, and write clearly … and expect the same from those who work for and with them.

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