Joel Homer

The language of the boardroom is full of shameless puns, coinages from Marxist rhetoric, and borrowings from popular psychology. But if you want to get along with Big Business types, become a Got, or accumulate kilobucks, here’s what you have to know.

To penetrate a particular world, one must understand the language of the natives. Here are some examples of Helpful Talk, the jargon used by those who pursue physical, mental, and spiritual perfection through a gamut of philosophies, some as old as India and others as new as today.