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ByAytekin Tank•
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"Aytekin, I haveno ideawhat he's saying," my friend Sam whispered under her breath. We were watching a lengthy slide presentation at abusiness conference, and nearly every word coming out of the presenter's mouth was laced withjargon.
He used terms like core competency, low-hanging fruit, and gain traction.The slides themselves were also hard enough to decipher, full of figures and stats.
What we desperately needed at that moment was a translator to put all of this into some kind of understandable context. As a CEO, I've become accustomed to attending morepresentationslike these than I'd prefer. It's one of the biggest hurdles I've seen in the business world: leaders struggling to break down their thoughts into easy, translatable ideas.
