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Word of the Day: Meanderthal

Sep 19, 2011
Faith Pincus

Today when I was reading Entrepreneur Magazine, I came across this word listed under their Jargon column:

Meanderthal: a person who has great difficulty expressing themselves succinctly, often giving long, unfocused presentations.

It got a great laugh out of me! I LOVE it!  And like all good magazines that provide examples of their newly defined words, Entrepreneur provides this one:

I want to gouge my eyes out every time the office meanderthal pulls up a Power Point.

Too funny! 

Not sure I have to comment much on this, other than to use it as an illustration of the fact that people:

  1. don’t like it when others take forever to get to the point, especially in a business setting, i.e. meander all over the place
  2. don’t like it when others use Power Point to take forever to get to the point

If this sounds familiar to you, as in you might be guilty of communicating in this fashion, it is time to learn how to be organized and succinct. It is also probably time to give up the Power Point addiction, even if everyone else uses it.  Trust me, your colleagues and audiences will thank you and will like your presentations a lot more.

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Speaker, coach, author and strategist, Faith Pincus has advised CEOs, Non-Profit Leaders, and some of the nation's top attorneys on core communications issues for the past 25 years.

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