Concise Dictionary of Business Management 2nd edition

It is not that long ago that I read a newspaper article in which the journalist was describing how he occasionally made up words just to see what happened. Human nature being what it is, rather than admit ignorance, others soon started to use the same word. A new word, therefore, entered our language without any real understanding of its meaning. The field of management appears very susceptible to new “fads” and hence new terms keep appearing. One example of this is that today companies are into rightsizing; several years back they downsized, and prior to that you were just...