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The Buzzword Bingo Book

28th November 2013 by Helena Leave a Comment  

The Complete, Definitive Guide to the Underground Workplace Game of Doublespeak

In its top 10 workplace problem list, the Houston Chronicle put ‘poor communication’ as among the top issues that most employees complain about. Because of too much focus on the job, some employees forget to talk to each other, making the workplace feel like a cemetery. To break the communication barrier, some people have come up with unique activities. One of which is buzzword bingo.

Buzzword bingo, as the name implies, follows the format of the classic game. However, when it comes to the materials used, buzzword bingo is different. If cards at FoxyBingo.com don numbers from 1 to 75, cards used in the game are printed with different words. In addition to that, the game does not have a bingo caller. In order to win, participants need to tick off the words in their cards that match the ones that their officemates have spoken. The game’s prizes vary depending on what the participants have agreed upon.

The game is definitely fun as it has been used by people from different sectors. Even the British labour delegates played it while listening to Prime Minister Tony Blair’s speech. The only setback in this game is that there is a tendency that some words will be overused. If you want to improve the game’s high replay value, what you can do is get tips and strategies from the Buzzword Bingo Book.

The Buzzword Bingo Book: The Complete, Definitive Guide to the Underground Workplace Game of Doublespeak

This how-to humour book, which was written by Lara Stein and Benjamin Yoskovitz, is especially created to prevent usual buzzword bingo games from becoming a yawn-athon. It provides a complete guide to the game, an overview of strategies, and comic ways of explaining why some managers insist on using buzzwords. The Buzzword Bingo Book also has 500 definitions of buzzy terms and 50 ready-to-use cards. After reading this book, employees will have more fun ways of playing buzzword bingo in the office.

According to Yoskovitz, he developed a special computer program to generate random numbers in certain cards. He even talked to personnel from “NASA who wants to customize it for themselves.”

For Yoskovitz The Buzzword Bingo Book is the best book to have in offices. If officemates want to create a bond among each other, the book will be of great help. However, employees must yell BINGO! at their own risks to prevent a scolding from their terror boss.


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Helena Frith Powell was born in Sweden to a Swedish mother and Italian father, but grew up mainly in England. She is the author of eleven books, translated into several languages including Chinese and Russian. She wrote the French Mistress column The Sunday Times about life in France for several years. She is a regular contributor to the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, The Times, Daily Telegraph, Tatler Magazine and Harper’s Bazaar.

Helena has been the editor of four magazines, including M Magazine, a supplement for the Abu Dhabi based National Newspaper and FIVE, a high-end fashion glossy, also published in Abu Dhabi. Helena was also editor in chief of 360 Life, a quarterly glossy magazine published with the Sports 360 Newspaper in Dubai, part of the Chalhoub Group.

Helena contributes regularly to UK-based newspapers and magazines and holds a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge. Helena is also working on a thriller called Thin Ice that will be published in spring 2021 as well as a novel about the relationship between Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield called Sense of an Echo.

Her latest non-fiction work Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles came out in hardback in 2016 and in paperback in April 2018.

Helena, who was educated at Durham University, lives in the Languedoc region of France with her husband Rupert and their three children.

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More France Please, we’re British; Gibson Square 2004

Two Lipsticks and a Lover 2005; Gibson Square (hardback)

All You Need to be Impossibly French; (US version of above) Penguin 2006

Two Lipsticks and a Lover; Arrow Books (paperback) 2007

Ciao Bella Gibson Square; (hardback) 2006

Ciao Bella Gibson Square; (paperback) 2007

So Chic! (French version of Two Lipsticks) Leduc Editions 2008 (also translated into Chinese, Russian and Thai)

More, More France; Gibson Square 2009

To Hell in High Heels; Arrow Books 2009 (also translated into Polish)

The Viva Mayr Diet; Harper Collins 2009

Love in a Warm Climate; Gibson Square 2011

The Ex-Factor; Gibson Square 2013

Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles; Gibson Square 2016

The Arnolfini Marriage; Amazon Kindle December 2016

Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles (paperback); Gibson Square spring 2018

The Longest Night; Gibson Square spring 2019

 

 

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