The smartest people in the room have forgotten who they are
Last Tuesday, I sat across from a senior director at a multinational. Cambridge graduate, impressive CV, the kind of person who once had opinions about Proust. She was explaining why her team missed a deadline using what I can only describe as corporate sedation language. “We experienced capacity constraints during the velocity optimization phase,” she said, without a trace of irony.I wanted to ask her when she’d stopped speaking like a human being. But I already knew the answer.What fascinates...
