corporate speak

corporate speak (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of corporatespeak.
   • 2003 January 5, Dennis Schroeder, “U.S. Business Schools Must Share the Blame”, in Los Angeles Times‎^[1], Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 4 June 2025:

     Business schools teach “corporate” models, theoretical exercises in mediocrity that, in the great majority of cases, have no real application in the business world. They teach “corporate speak” when most business owners succeed with street sense. Education does not equal leadership -- performance does.

   • 2010 November 29, John Cassidy, “Mary Meeker Moves On”, in The New Yorker‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 9 August 2014:

     At her peak at Morgan, she reputedly earned twenty or thirty million dollars a year. That’s a lot of cash, but it’s nothing like the riches that a senior partner at KP can pull down. I can only guess that she enjoyed being at the center of the action, and she liked being a “thought leader” (like virtually everybody on Wall Street, she had a weakness for corporate speak).

   • 2024 March 1, Tammy LaGorce, “How Their Corporate Speak Turned Into a Language of Love”, in The New York Times‎^[3], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 1 March 2024:

     “I’m thinking he’s going to be like, ‘Hey, Big Papa,’” Mr. McCaskill said with a laugh. Instead, “Marcus was like, ‘Hi Drew, I see you’ve recently made a career transition, and I have a current career scenario I’m navigating,’” he said. Though the corporate speak they settled into just after wasn’t exactly a love language, Mr. McCaskill, then an independent diversity, equity and inclusion consultant in Harlem, felt a tug to pay it forward.