English Rewind - Weekender: management speak

???? What is 'management speak' - and is it always a bad thing? Learn more with Callum Robertson while you improve your English vocabulary knowledge AND practise your English listening with this archive episode of the BBC Learning English programme Weekender. How do you feel about management speak? Tell us in the comments ????????????

Examples of management speak:
✔️ Blue-sky thinking - Idealistic or visionary ideas even if they are not very practical
✔️ to get our ducks in a row - to have everything prepared efficiently
✔️ brain dump - saying everything you know about a particular topic
✔️ think outside the box - don't limit your thinking to within your job description; be creative
✔️ joined-up thinking - thinking about how things affect each other; not looking at something by itself
✔️ drilling down - getting more detail about something
✔️ to push the envelope - to improve performance by going beyond commonly accepted boundaries
✔️ the helicopter view - an overview
✔️ low-hanging fruit - the easiest targets

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English Rewind is a collection of programmes from the BBC Learning English archive. This episode of Weekender was first published on the BBC Learning English website in November 2006.

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