Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs | Cornell Chronicle

Employees who are impressed by vague corporate-speak like “synergistic leadership,” or “growth-hacking paradigms” may struggle with practical decision-making, a new Cornell study into “corporate BS” reveals.

Employees who are impressed by vague corporate-speak like “synergistic leadership,” or “growth-hacking paradigms” may struggle with practical decision-making, a new Cornell study reveals. Related Stories Research Matters: Learning from ‘the armpit of the internet’ The robots are here. And they mean business. Published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences , research by cognitive psychologist Shane Littrell introduces the Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale (CBSR), a tool designed to measure susceptibility to impressive-but-empty organizational rhetoric. “Corporate bullshit is

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