There's a great article on the BBC News Magazine website here about the horrors of business-speak and management jargon: words and phrases like blue sky thinking, giving it 110% (like the mighty Lee on The Apprentice), stepping up to the plate and herding the dinosaurs.
There's also an interesting point of view broadcast here from Radio 4 which offers an angle on this horrible phenomenon.
What does it all mean? Why do people use it? How can we stop it? All good questions, but now we must go forward.
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