Jargon Is Hurting Your Strategy

Jargon Is Hurting Your Strategy
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Corporate strategies are often written with the best intentions. Leaders want to inspire, energize, and align. Yet too frequently, the language of strategy—full of abstractions such as “innovation,” “excellence,” and “agility”—becomes more fog than fuel. Instead of clarifying the path forward, the very words meant to unify teams sow misinterpretation, confusion, and drift.

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