COMMENTARY If I had to write one wildly popular business article -- just one -- it would have to be about the horrors of business jargon. For some reason, it makes people crazy. But here's the thing.

On the latest episode of ‘The New Way We Work,’ Fast Company editors debate the worst business jargon of all time and decide which word needs to be eliminated from our vocabulary. Click to expand.

We pinged our readers for the terms that really annoy them. The list is long.

I detest jargon at a visceral level. Not only do I understand how much it sabotages our communication, but I feel how ugly it is, how it stultifies the soul. It does not deserve to live. Hopefully, ...

My dad and my brothers were into baseball and football. I picked up some of the terminology by osmosis as a kid. When I hit the business world, I knew what some of the standard business jargon meant ...

If you’re using terms like “make hay” and “peel the onion” in your job ads, stop. Just stop. Even words like “dynamic” and “self-starter” can trip a reader up. According to an analysis of 6.3 million ...

Anne Curzan, English professor at the University of Michigan, studies the evolution of language. While many of us roll our eyes at bizspeak — from synergy to value-add to... Anne Curzan, English ...

One of my favorite leadership writers is Bob Sutton, author of "The No Asshole Rule" and his new book "Good Boss, Bad Boss". In a recent interview with me he spoke about "Jargon Monoxide"- the ...

Frequent, Unexplained Jargon Total jargon use during appointments ranged from 0 to 26, with a mean of 5.40 instances of use during each encounter, the authors report. The mean use of distinct jargon ...