In the mood for some destratification? Try our Davos HotPhrase Generator
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jan/25/mood-destratification-davos-hotphrase-generator Version 0 of 1. To those not invited – including, frankly, us – the World Economic Forum at Davos gets a bad rap. Sure, bankers, CEOs, minor royalty, authors and celebrities – Charlize Theron, Paulo Coelho – are all wandering around the remote Alpine aerie in a self-congratulatory fugue state, chatting smugly about Big Ideas. Many of these ideas are an inelegant combination of bluster and parody, a creative word salad – some of the choicer Davos-inspired word creations include "horizontality," "equalitability" and "unrecruitment" as well as "destratification". These baffling linguistic koans are what make Davos, Davos. Davos is a kind of wormhole, where visionary pronouncements walk hand-in-hand with self-parody. A wall of tweets from attendees, labeled "participant buzz", was touted by one (ironically, one hopes) as "a perfect example of tech-enabled peer norming". With the pronouncements at Davos verging on the banal, the parodies are where the real commentary party is. One fake Twitter account based on Guardian contributor and media man-about-town Jeff Jarvis usually makes its bones by inventing catchwords like "thinkfluential" or "nextification". As Davos started, the fake Twitter account pronounced, "Davos is about one thing: self-disruption." It seems unfair to let this be an effort only for the elite. Use our random word generator to create your own Davos HotPhrases. Whip up some fondue and serve some wine, and all of a sudden it's easy to feel like a CEO in economic fairyland. |