{"id":2210,"date":"2013-09-29T21:12:43","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T01:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/?p=2210"},"modified":"2013-09-29T21:43:24","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T01:43:24","slug":"buzz-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/2013\/09\/29\/buzz-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Buzz Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/BuzzWord1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2219\" alt=\"BuzzWord\" src=\"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/BuzzWord1-300x215.jpg\" width=\"138\" height=\"98\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/BuzzWord1-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/BuzzWord1.jpg 497w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 138px) 100vw, 138px\" \/><\/a>Recently, I found myself twice realizing that business buzz words are sometimes welcome and sometimes \u2013 not so much.\u00a0 The welcoming event was when I was talking with a lean consultant and by each of us using buzz words we quickly were able to do that \u201cget to know you dance\u201d and move on to higher level conversations. In this case Buzz Words served to expedite the conversation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The second time was while I was teaching a program about Taxes to start up businesses.\u00a0 A participant that was starting his business also had studied tax and knew tax lingo like:\u00a0 \u201cWhen using forms 4562 or 4797. . .\u201d\u00a0 I knew what the person was asking, but the rest of the audience had their eyes rolling back in their heads.\u00a0 I gracefully explained, then continued and answered the question while educating the others.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When we use Buzz Words around those that don\u2019t understand then, we are excluding them from the conversation and when we do this in our businesses, we may create a culture of those that are &#8220;in the know&#8221; and those that are not.\u00a0\u00a0 Buzz Words have their place and sometimes that place is best explained, not spoken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I found myself twice realizing that business buzz words are sometimes welcome and sometimes \u2013 not so much.\u00a0 The welcoming event was when I was talking with a lean consultant and by each of us using buzz words we quickly were able to do that \u201cget to know you dance\u201d and move on to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2210"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2212,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions\/2212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}