The Pocket Dictionary of Corporate Jargon and Management Speak

Ever sat through a meeting and wondered when English became a second language?

From circle back and low-hanging fruit to bandwidth, buy-in and touch base, the modern workplace has developed a language all of its own.

The Pocket Dictionary of Corporate Jargon and Management Speak brings together 350 terms from office life, business, management and the strange linguistic ecosystem that forms wherever meetings, strategy documents and PowerPoint presentations gather.

Some of the language is useful. Some of it is unavoidable. Some of it is a perfectly ordinary thought wearing a lanyard.

With straight-faced definitions, familiar examples and the occasional translation back into everyday English, this is a little dictionary for anyone who has ever been asked to align, leverage, ideate, cascade or circle back.

You may recognise your colleagues. You may recognise yourself.