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About us When Don Watson wrote Death Sentence* a torrent of letters and emails began from people rebelling against managerial language. Since then Watson's Dictionary of Weasel Words, Contemporary Clichés, Cant & Management Jargon has been published and this site has been set up. It is for people who have silently wept into a crumpled copy of their company's mission statement, for teachers who want to work in classrooms and not customer service points, and for all those who have been underpinned by an innovative, value adding, creative, sustainable, diverse and optimised framework. *In UK - Gobbledygook, Atlantic 2004, in US - Death Sentences, Gotham Books, May 2005. 'In 1916 Theodore Roosevelt declared that the 'tendency to use what have been called weasel words was "one of the defects of our nation".' 'You can have universal training or you can have voluntary training, but when you use the word "voluntary" to qualify the word "universal", you are using a weasel word,' he said: 'it has sucked all the meaning out of "universal".' (Watson's Dictionary of Weasel Words, Contemporary Clichés, Cant & Management Jargon, page 3). If you have any suggestions or comments about this site, please email us at: touchbase@weaselwords.com.au |
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networking
To exchange business cards, glances etc. Have a drink, take tea, dine with. Do what's necessary. (More if it's agreeable).
'2.50pm. Coffee and Networking.' - Governance seminar brochure
'I networked my arse off.'
- Participant in governance seminar.
(Watson's Dictionary of Weasel Words, Contemporary Clichés, Cant & Management Jargon, page 222)