Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Huh?


"Walk with me. You've gotta meet this guy with the LMK. He's kinda this entrepreneurial social guru — thinking outside of the box in the green/sustainability space and developing concepts around sort of Web-based social media platform, and he's way past the AI crowd and now in a round two capital raise in the 501(c)(3) space with the people at NDPA sometime in Q1."

How many times have you scratched your head after hearing something like — no — precisely this sentence?

Let's say you miraculously navigate through the first part of the sentence. (You won't, but let's say you do.)

You're still in a brain freeze when you get to that last NDPA acronym. You're thinking NDPA...let's see...National Decorating Products Association? North Dakota Pschological Association? National Diploma in Performing Arts? National Drowning Prevention Association?

This might be amusing if it weren't true. Some business people just don't make sense anymore.

Why not gain credibility, become more productive, make those around you more efficient, and get more joy in your work life by simply looking someone in the eye when you hear one of these verbal log jams and anti-communications assaults and simply state to the perpetrator, "I don't have a clue of what you just said to me."