Whaaaaa?

The lack of blogging is attributed to the fact that I've Been Away At a Conference. It was very well organised and some of the speakers turned out to be interesting, which was such a refreshing change, and James Morrison played at the official dinner, and one day I was chatting to a pleasant man about work stuff - and he wasn't even using any jargon! - and then he said something which he thought I wouldn't get and I said something back to indicate oh yes indeed I did get it and we saw in each other mutual Bob Dylan nuts and we ditched the boring work talk and went All Bob, but I still think that all registration packs at these events should come with a cyanide pill so that when it all gets too much, you can opt out.

Much of the proceedings was a mystery to me as it was shrouded in this kind of language, which should be banned under some kind of international treaty:

"We need to address the performance gap in such a way that our stakeholders can take traction with it."
"Over the next few days you should use this opportunity to maximise the terms of your own value proposition."
"We saw that we needed to deliver targets with sufficient granularity."
"When we talk with our communities they are still living in an age of progress paradigm."
"She is a regular Visitor to the Boardroom of Australia." (Ignoring the idiosyncratic capitalisation, it seems like things are Getting a Bit Personal.)
"There will be continuous learning for high touch."

It's nice to be back in the office with a boss who says things relatively understandable things like, "You're not a bad bird, even if you are a theorist."