utilize been on my internal list for about a decade. always has the opposite effect as intended on me. i question if the writer is playing intellectual dress up.
our CEO does it A LOT. a personal emperors new clothes scenario. anyone ever confront upper management and correct language that signals they dont know what theyre talking about?
it seems to me that many small business ceos are emperors in new clothes talking amongst themselves so i rationalize thats just how they speak and expect to be spoken to. confronting not worth risking a knee-jerk-response to an injured ego
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utilize been on my internal list for about a decade. always has the opposite effect as intended on me. i question if the writer is playing intellectual dress up.
our CEO does it A LOT. a personal emperors new clothes scenario. anyone ever confront upper management and correct language that signals they dont know what theyre talking about?
it seems to me that many small business ceos are emperors in new clothes talking amongst themselves so i rationalize thats just how they speak and expect to be spoken to. confronting not worth risking a knee-jerk-response to an injured ego
If your ceo saying “utilize” instead of “use” is your most trenchant criticism of your ceo, consider yourself blessed. Better to let this one go.
If your CEO is always saying "utilize", I'd just make the "doin it" finger motions every time until he stops.
Let me interject for a moment to tell you about our lord and saviour, “leverage”.
And disciples "reach out", "touch base", and "circle back."
Don’t mention them in vain, lest you call Synergy from the deeps of oblivion! Best of breed, of course.
Enterprise-grade at scale.
i hear "leverage" more than see it in docs/email, but almost only ever see "utilize" in writing.
I’m entertaining a hypothesis that “Leverage” rolls from the tongue smoothly, but “utilize” is more of a breeze to produce on a QWERTY keyboard.