Part 1

A friend passed along this great tool for generating absurd business-speak phrases. We’ve all seen these types of tools before, but they continue to be a source for a good laugh. After all, nobody actually speaks this way, right?

Part 2

Apparently they do. I received the following email earlier this week. It was titled “Approach to cross promote.” I thought it was a prank. Enjoy!

I am writing to make a proposal for a business combination with a reasonable confidence. We at aim and focus to give our best to people that are in the market to acquire jobs in the progressive Northwest. is a limited dimensional firm compared to Xbarit, never the less we are distinguished by the source of our sharpness and obliging manner to provide service to your company with a fair return of exchange. Being the business development manager, my team members and I are determined that has significant potential upside given the continued solid growth to increase our boundaries beyond with strategic initiatives that can vary from eliminating redundant infrastructure to eliminating duplicate operating costs which will lead to combined cost efficient financial performance. Together we can offer an increasingly exciting set of solutions in the software industry for our clients and candidates.

I would value the opportunity to further discuss with you how to optimize the integration of our respective businesses. I look forward to a prompt and favorable reply.

Posted by Brad Benner in What Not on 7 August 2008. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.