We are desperately searching for a term for people that connotes the best of human kind. The creative, sensing, combinatorial synergistic, empathic solutioning persons that have yet to been labeled with a role name that works.
Some of the old terms:
Staff, Workforce, Human Resource, My Team, Army, Company
Shakespeare created 1700 words in his time. He mutated verbs to nouns, and vice-a-versa, transformed verbs into adjectives, and formed words from whole cloth never before heard. This skill is rare, but there is a poet that can create the term we need in the twenty-first century.
What should this term define?
21st Century Human Resource; the generalizing specialist.
Yes, but what more? What less?
Suggest your poetry in the comments, let us see if we cannot do 1/1700 as well as The Bard.
By-the-way; who create the phrase "coin a word"?
Some of the old terms:Staff, Workforce, Human Resource, My Team, Army, Company
Shakespeare created 1700 words in his time. He mutated verbs to nouns, and vice-a-versa, transformed verbs into adjectives, and formed words from whole cloth never before heard. This skill is rare, but there is a poet that can create the term we need in the twenty-first century.
What should this term define?
21st Century Human Resource; the generalizing specialist.
Yes, but what more? What less?Suggest your poetry in the comments, let us see if we cannot do 1/1700 as well as The Bard.
By-the-way; who create the phrase "coin a word"?
So, if you want your colleagues to keep listening to you -- and liking you -- eliminate these phrases from your office vocabulary:
Give it 110%, Think outside the box, Hammer it out, Heavy lifting, Throw them under the bus, Don't count your chickens before they've hatched, Pushing the envelope, Let the cat out of the bag, Let's circle back, Win-win situation
John Koenig loves finding words that express our unarticulated feelings — like "lachesism," the hunger for disaster, and "sonder," the realization that everyone else's lives are as complex and unknowable as our own. Here, he meditates on the meaning we assign to words and how these meanings latch onto us.
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