Microspeak: Learnings

re: Microspeak: Learnings

Benjimawoo — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:12:02 GMT

And what does incented mean, anyway? Is that like incentivized? (http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=define%3Aincentivized&meta=)

re: Microspeak: Learnings

blah — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:20:42 GMT

MBAs need to communicate with people who do actual work to reach a decision and then inform their underlings. So naturally what do you need to keep everybody on the same page? Management jargon!

re: Microspeak: Learnings

Grank — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:21:44 GMT

I can't help but think of the Simpsons bit...

"Oh papa Homer, you are so learn-ed!"

"Lurnd. It's pronounced lurnd."

(I apologize for not knowing IPA but I think you get it :)

re: Microspeak: Learnings

RobO — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:55:18 GMT

Is "learnings" any different than the "learns" in your subtitle?

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Mark (The other Mark) — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:34:53 GMT

A cynical person might be able to come up with a reason why people who create powerpoints with slides titled "Key Learnings" aren't able to actually distill what those might be onto a slide.

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Wes — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:43:19 GMT

I hate hate hate seeing "learnings." It's almost always from a practitioner of marketing-speak.

obLOLcat

joel8360 — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:15:36 GMT

"It are a fact. I know because of my learnings."

- http://flickr.com/photos/cherie_priest/327516572/

Share the image with anyone who seriously uses "learnings" and suggest that they avoid any locutions they find on icanhascheezburger.com.

re: Microspeak: Learnings

Jonathan — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:32:13 GMT

Learn (v.) : Learnings (n.)

Ask (v) : Asks (n.)

Yep, lots of consistency in management-speak.

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Gene — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:38:06 GMT

The fact that these people don't think they sound stupid when they say things like this astounds me.

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Maurits — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:17:25 GMT

Required reading:

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/manager_achieves_full_mastery_of

re: Microspeak: Learnings

Marc Wickens — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:17:40 GMT

"Learning"?

At Uni we had specific "learning outcomes" - that makes sense, but "Learnings" ??

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Miles Archer — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:52:39 GMT

Larnings. Sounds a lot like take-aways.

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manicmarc — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:10:47 GMT

Take-aways are convenient, fast, usually very greasy, but almost always great tasting meals, usually purchased from a fast food outlet.

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SRS — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:43:15 GMT

"What are our key learnings for this project?" - Clearly you need to ask your Chief Experience Officer, a job title that is surely related directly to a deflated share price.

re: Microspeak: Learnings

scorpion007 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:31:22 GMT

Perhaps they were inspired by "Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan".

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Anonymous Coward — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:00:09 GMT

So, have these people never heard of the word "lessons"? Or are they actually trying to convey a different meaning with "learnings"? And as I type this post, my browser's spell check has indicated that it does not think very highly of "learnings"; one would think that would have caused someone to think twice.

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mike — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:40:52 GMT

Anyone have trouble understanding what was meant in these cites? Just wondering.

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Just Me — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:13:52 GMT

It sounds like "Jinglish" to me, that odd mishmash combination of Hindu/English.

@manicmarc

Morten — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:31:05 GMT

Please stop showing off your learnings...

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Gordon — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:15:38 GMT

I've just been reviewing some Tech-Ed 2008 (NZ) presentations, since I didn't get to go.

Two of them have learning's - with an apostrophe. I thought that these things were copy-edited?

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Dave — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:06:31 GMT

>Perhaps they were inspired by "Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit

>Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan".

Damn, and I was just about to suggest the answer to the second question was "Key learnings of project for make benefit glorious employees of Microsoft".

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