Define: "Wordsmithing" in Business
High risk of unnecessary meetings
"Put yourself on mute and let them argue over adjectives."
The careful crafting and editing of text to ensure clarity and appropriate tone.
What does "Wordsmithing" actually mean?
"A Vice President holding six people hostage on a bridge call to argue over whether an incident report should say disruption or degradation."
"Let's do some quick wordsmithing on this press release."
"We spent an hour wordsmithing the post-mortemPost-MortemA solemn post-incident trial where cross-functional teams gather to pretend they care about systemic fixes while quietly hunting for a scapegoat. report so the CTO wouldn't realize it was entirely our fault."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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