The Lost Art of Plain Speaking - The Friday Rant

This topic is a gift from my ghost writer. "Calling a Spade a Spade" Doesn't the vast majority of what's wrong with HR and business in general is all this double speak and political correctness? If the old adage, "A problem well-stated is half-solved" still applies in a modern era, wouldn't it seem if we just "called it what was", the problems would be easier to see and solve? I am often curious what causes us to make the problem less interesting or less pressing by calling it something pretty, like an opportunity. Why would we compromise urgency for fluff? The sense of achievement in solving a problem is much higher than taking advantage of an opportunity. Notice opportunities are associated with a sense of advantage. That could be appealing to those that need to dominate or conquer. For the rest of us,we grew up solving problems and getting rewarded with good grades. We are good team players and go along with the new verbiage, then we make fun of it over a beer at business conferences. Secretly, we think that pandering to the whiners that require pretty pictures to keep their rosy world functioning is a waste of time. Now is the time to commit to saying it like it is. Are you with me? No more PC paint to keep everybody positive. Time to gut it out like Knute Rockny and the heroes of old. It looks bad men, but we are not ordinary people and we will prevail. Holding the flag at the top of Fort McHenry lying along the bodies of my comrades that held the flag before me, it is time to validate the claim or our national anthem. Let's get back to the land of the free and the home of the brave. No bullets, just simple words in a complex world.