I had a business professor who used “value add” constantly, to the point that I still can’t hear that 20 years later without cringing. Our final project in his class was something like “look at a business and find a place where you can value add.” That was literally all the guidance we got.
I once got an email from an executive C-level who mentioned adding value at least four times in a single paragraph.
Annoying as hell because the email hardly contained anything of substance.
That would be every e-mail from C-level.
That’s the special executive duckspeak.
I’ve gone from being righteously angry to bored and hopeless hearing the speech of some particularly skilled practitioners.
It’s really kind of amazing how this kind of babble can have such an intense emotional impact while textually imparting almost 0 new information.
It’s all about the vibes conveyed by the medium. Kind of like how trump talks in a way, come to think of it.
I had a business professor who used “value add” constantly, to the point that I still can’t hear that 20 years later without cringing. Our final project in his class was something like “look at a business and find a place where you can value add.” That was literally all the guidance we got.