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Ok,
I have a question i would like to pose to people here, does the following sentence make sense to you, and provide a valid use of the word 'cascade':
"The management would like to cascade some information to everyone"
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Shepy
It makes sense, but I would say it wasn’t an ideal way to say it. Just sounds like a typical management comment of trying to make something sound more complex than it needs to be.
Right, just no. Cascade means :
Definitions of cascade on the Web:
* a small waterfall or series of small waterfalls
* a succession of stages or operations or processes or units; "progressing in severity as though a cascade of genetic damage was occurring"; "separation of isotopes by a cascade of processes"
* rush down in big quantities, like a cascade
* shower: a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower; "a little shower of rose petals"; "a sudden cascade of sparks"
* arrange (open windows) on a computer desktop so that they overlap each other, with the title bars visible
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Nowhere in that definition does it say to send email around a company, the word they are looking for is distribute.
I'd say it's a valid use of the word (just), but that there are a great many other words that are far more appropriate.
It's valid, just grammatically horrible and inappropriate for the subject matter.
"The management, would like this information passed on to all employees."
I would have said cascadeded.
In the context of the original question, it is a well used business term
It refers to distribution of information by the method of passing info on to others in a pre-defined order, the idea being that important info can be rapidly spread from a single source.
For example, Sainsburys have a cascade plan in place should internal e-mail go down and an important message needs to go out. Head Office calls, say, five stores to start the cascade. Each store calls three others with each subsequent store calling three others and so on.
It was originally slated to be called 'avalanche' due tot he snowballing nature of the info being spread to more and more stores at each stage, but I think they went with cascade as it was already established as a business term
Well it's a rubbish 'business term' (are there any which aren't?). It's just another ugly, gratuitous noun->verb mutation. What's wrong with using 'distribute' instead?
I'd go with distrbute.
In the new business paradigm, communication solutions like that are part of the modern manager's core competencies:rolleyes:.
I once enjoyed 'cascade training'.
This occurs when six people need to attend an external conference, but the firm only want to lose one day's worth of chargeable hours. The attendee is then responsible for 'upskilling' the non-attendees by cascading the knowledge :mrgreen:
Totally agreeQuote:
Originally Posted by Agent
Sounds to me like managment not only idea's above their station, but a dictionary aswell. Never a good mix.
It should be disseminate, if you wanted to use management speak and actually make sense at the same time.
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Originally Posted by chuckskull
Like he said....
Only good use of cascade is this...
Ace by Cascade
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Who said anything about fertilising anything?Quote:
Originally Posted by yamangman
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Baby Kangaroo Tribbiani
Why do we have management terminology in the work place? Does it come from PR advisors? I can understand when a person is been interviewed why would rather pull the wool over Joe public:
opportunity - problem
to the best of my knowledge - I don't know
as far as I am aware - I don't know
we need to work together - I'm going to blame everyone else when this doesn't work
Are the any management type people to explain why the terminology is used, does it work on most people - it just irritates me.
Well done hexus :D.Quote:
Originally Posted by HEXUS Recruitment Department
IMO you cannot cascade to everyone. You cascade by sending it to to some who send it to more in turn, like a family tree. It only gets to everyone *eventually*.
Wrong use of the term as far as I'm concerned.
Would 'propagate' have been a better word to use? I think that the use of 'cascade' was incorrect.