Lingo Bingo - Active Phrasing Missing in Boardroom Dicussions

Trust thought for today - Rather liked this chart from Civil Service World - Lingo Bingo - decoding the language of the boardroom - by Simon Ancona CBE Whitehall and Industry Group. I just applied this to a sort of strategy meeting. Oops, lots of gaps, fudge and ignoring the hard stuff! Quite useful!

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"Next time you are in a meeting, try playing boardroom bingo. Draw a table with our four themes down one side and the three related topics in the rows next to each. Listen hard and circle which combinations are being talked about.

"What will leap out at you is the areas not being discussed. In no time at all, you can impress your colleagues and annoy the chair with questions like, “do we have the additional means to form the teams necessary for this, if we plan no compromise around our approach to delivery?”.