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Word up | Why it's time to ditch the business jargon

Why it's time to ditch the business jargon
Why it's time to ditch the business jargon

In this exclusive article for Grapevine Leaders, David Clayton, founder of training provider True & North, explains why using jargon instead of communicating clearly and simply is very bad for business...

If you’ve been reading news reports from the recent World Economic Forum at Davos, you may have been perplexed by some of the mystifying language spewing forth from politician and thinkers’ mouths: all ‘economic iron curtains’, ‘shift-lefts’ and ‘trust-shoring’.

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