Communicating Effectively With Management Via ChatGPT
Sometimes it’s nice to speak to someone in their own language.
It is often said that one should continuously adapt the way in which one communicates depending upon to whom you are communicating in order to achieve maximum effect.
Unfortunately, despite the plethora of eye-wateringly expensive and attractively named management courses, journals, and weekend spar hotel based seminars that are increasingly available, they don’t seem to have cottoned on to this fact and continue trotting out the same tired overbearing doctrine of years gone by.
We however, the progressive software engineers toiling away in the Grand Game of Software Engineering, have learned to understand their occult management buzzwords and have developed a unique immunity to its torpor inducing effects.
We’ve even managed, on occasion, to distil some meaning from the banal and often obfuscated bullshit that sometimes flows steadily or other times falls out in collective lumps from the various corporate ‘channels’.
But we could of course do without this nonsense to be perfectly honest. Therefore, on occasion, in our semi passive-aggressive resistance to this it’s actually quite fun¹ to return the favour to management types and speak in their language — to see if they actually understand…
