In tandem with George Osborne's spending review I have revised the old office bingo and suggested a new version. Some of you will no doubt be familiar with the game of office bingo. Devised as an antidote to overly long and boring meetings, this game kept participants alert by trying to catch their colleagues out when they resorted to management speak, watching for words or phrases like:
win-win
continuous improvement
out of the loop
ballpark
out of the box thinking
strategic fit
However in these days of austerity I argue that language in organisations will have to adapt and so perhaps a new set of bingo cards should be made with words or phrases like:
in the current climate
the need to make savings
challenging circumstances
considerable uncertainty
difficult times ahead
working smarter
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