Christian Näthler | Substack
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Christian Näthler | Substack
In 2004, I sat down in my boardroom with our strategy documents and started to dissect them. There were lots of familiar and comfortable terms. We had to be innovative, efficient, customer centric, web 2.0 and all that this entailed. Alas, I suspected these common “memes” were repeated in the strategy documents of other companies because I was pret... See more
Simon Wardley • Highlights From medium.com
“Bad news: The foremost experts in cultural analysis are reporting concepts and phrases which are statistically commonplace. [...] We’ve lost sight of what it means to be brave. It feels like our facilities for riskiness and imagination have atrophied.”
Meta Trends 2024 by Matt Klein
Thomas Klaffke • Unframing the Future
Helfand compiled a list of commonly bandied-about words and divided them into categories like Hyphenated Mash-ups ( omni-channel, level-setting, business-critical ), Compound Phrases ( email blast, integrated deck, pain point, deep dive ) and Conceptual Hybrids (“shooting” someone an email, “looping” someone in)
Molly Young • Why do corporations speak the way they do?
The tech industry currently stands at a crossroads. At the twilight of social media, adtech, and crypto bull markets (bubbles?), tech workers and consumers are simultaneously exhausted by tech and starving for more. Shiny trends like Artificial Intelligence and Mixed Reality stand on the sidelines ready to transform latent frustrations into newfang... See more
Bryan Lehrer • What Happened to the New Internet?
