(译者：常和)

Who talks more management nonsense, men or women?

I thought I knew the answer to this most intriguing of questions: the man beats the woman every time. This is partly because men are fonder of the sporting metaphor, and like to step up to the plate whilst raising the bar on their bench strength in the level playing field。

But it’s also because the point of jargon is either to make you sound big or as a substitute for thought, and women are less keen on sounding big, and less inclined to speak before they have worked out what, if anything, they have to say。

However, several things have happened to me recently to make me doubt the superiority of men at talking guff. The first was a lunch I attended for top women in business. As these women held forth, there was an orgy of “reaching out” and “delivering value” and “going forward” that would have made any man feel quite at home。

The next day I was sent the programme for the biggest women’s jamboree the world has ever seen. This week, 30,000 women will gather in Long Beach and another million will follow online an event organised by Maria Shriver, the First Lady of California, at which Michelle Obama, Meg Whitman and Billie Jean King will each say their bit。

The promotional video for the event shows Ms Shriver talking a blue streak of drivel。

“Being who we are is in fact the greatest gift that we can give ourselves, our community and our world,” she says。

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