Back in my day, we didn’t have no such nonsense as “learnings”. We acquisitioned knowledge-wise and we liked it that way.
Decisioning? You’re freakin’ kidding, right?
Creationizing gets a free pass but decisioning rubs your rhubarb wrong?
Statsman1982, you’re doing lovely work here. Would you please slip granularity and interface with into your next screed? Those totally rub my rhubarb wrong. Thanks!
Fuck me but you’re *good *at this.
Just curious: has anybody sent this to Sarah yet?
She could handle a learning experience without imploding. I would bank on it.
Can you translate this? Because I really can’t figure it out.
Methinks the poster statsman1982 may be using a jargon generator found online.
It doesn’t mean anything. That’s the beauty of it.
If you really have to you could take it to mean “let’s talk about this later” or “I’ll check with my guys and get back to you on this”. But it’s really just meaningless drivel strung together at random. You know, management consulting.
My 50 cents:
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I just hope I can remember this post the next time the issue of who said this in what movie comes up! 
That’s cheating! I thought it might mean "We need people to tell us what they need so we can improve, but I kept getting lost.
It has to mean something for it to count, doesn’t it? Like statsman’s - which was absolute genuis.
Really? Did a lot of people here complain about that?
But that said, it’s simply not the same thing. “Google” as a verb carries a meaning that was not carried by any other word; “to seek information on the Internet using a search engine.” “Search” by itself isn’t the same thing.
“Learnings” in the context described by the OP appears to be identical in meaning to “lessons.”
Yes, language changes, but that doesn’t mean we can’t insist that it change in good and productive ways. The language adds a lot of perfectly good words every year, and changes the meaning of words, but in most cases it’s because a word fulfils a new purpose, bringing with it a new definition or nuance.
But sometimes it just doesn’t. Corporate buzzspeak is rife with this shit. In many cases it’s just the overuse and expansion of a real word. “Paradigm” really took off in 1986 when Joel Barker began publishing books and videos about it; it was Le Shitte in management workshops for ten years and the term “paradigm” began to expand way past what it had meant just a few years before. It’s long since fallen out of favour, though, and today you’ll rarely see it used. At around the same time in business jargon some people simply would not use the word “use,” but insisted on “utilize.” That, too, is going away. So yeah, language changes - but sometimes it changes back because the change sucked.
There’s no reason we HAVE to accept every new word that comes down the pike just because “well, hey, language changes.” Yes, and things cost money, too, but I don’t have to buy everything that’s for sale.
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Yes, and things cost money, too, but I don’t have to buy everything that’s for sale.
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So, what was your spend on things last year?
damn, wanted to make a jargonized response about never rubbing another man’s rhubarb, apparently I need a reuptake on the learnings of corp/sales/moti speak
God help me, I actually know what that all means.
You think it’s nonsense but you speak wisdom inadvertently.
True, but in a situation where people who are affected by or have responsibility for the project don’t think about the entire situation - and let the people who are running the project know their thoughts, or indeed examine the skills of the people involved with the project in order to avoid problems at the time of its release - how can we take advantage of the best ways of working within the rules of the project in the future?
What we need to do is give high priority to simple, innovative communication methods between different parts of the company with different abilities that allow people to speak freely without fear of being held accountable for inevitable mistakes, in order to make the most of the projects we’re working on that are currently productive.
Makes perfect sense. 
It’s very simple. For some reason, corporate America has decided that they sound more intelligent if you turn nouns into verbs and verbs into nouns. Probably because it forces you to make the rest of the sentence much longer and more awkward, therby making you harder to understand and thus more intelligent than the people who don’t understand you.
One does not “learn something”, they “aquire learnings”.
One does not “ask for something”, then “they ask what is the ask on this?”.
Language doesn’t “change”, it “experiences changeings”.
I’ve found that if you wear a $1000 Brooks Brothers suit, have a bunch of fancy degrees from well known schools, represent a big company that is supposed to be full of smart people and speak in a pompous and authorative manner, people who have been doing their job for ten years will assume you know more than they do about how they should do it.
I think you mean “lets take that offline”.
I’m not really sure that is the prevalent thinking among the crowd. I mean, by now, everyone knows that none of the top consulting companies simply do not bring any quantifiable value to any new business/technology initiative.
Just about now I’m working on a high-profile risk technology project at a top financial institution where head of a certain business unit has brought in one of those consulting companies to “show us the way”. Internally, it is being totally laughed out as a complete and utter waste of time and money. Yet, situations like this persist and people are being dragged into that without ever being asked or explained.
They’ve been around for about 2 months and other than lingo cr*p there is no single idea they formulated that will contribute in a identifiable manner. Simply none. In fact, I had to dispel a lot of misconceptions on what exactly they will do to move our program forward (which is nothing) and some of these guys have been around for years. My guess is that also some people just take as a fact of corporate life and go along with it even though they probably think we could do on own just fine.
I wonder only who has the ba**l to tell that to the head of the unit who is their biggest fan.