10 Ways to Cultivate a Creative IT Environment - Avoid Management Speak

Baseline’s second installment of a four-part series on how to get the most from your IT role players.

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Speak in plain English, Kjerulf advises. Don’t muddle the waters with puffed-up management lingo. Geeks will use technical lingo, but that may be the only way to talk about certain topics. Besides, it isn’t necessarily their job to change the way they talk in order to please you.

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