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Mind your language

How a prayer became business speak

This piece of business jargon has deep devotional roots

4 July 2015

9:00 AM

4 July 2015

9:00 AM

No doubt you, too, have had the feeling, upon glancing at an article in a paper picked up in a train or café, that it might mean something to someone, but it means nothing to you. I read this sentence in the Times the other day: ‘Not everyone builds an M&A machine on the back of stuff people throw away, such as till receipts and paper cups.’

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