2023年1月15日

下午好。为了纪念星期一的节日，让我们回顾一下马丁·路德·金1967年在河滨教堂发表的开创性演讲。在3000名听众面前，他抨击了越南战争，并表示美国政府“拒绝放弃海外投资带来的巨大利润所带来的特权和乐趣，使和平革命成为不可能。”媒体对这次演讲的反应非常负面。《纽约时报》称金的言论是“轻率的”和“诽谤”。《华盛顿邮报》说，马丁·路德·金“对他的事业、他的国家和他的人民都失去了用处。”这只能证明56年前的热门拍摄在今天和当时一样离谱。别胡扯了，办公室里爆发了一场骂人的大爆发工作已经改变了。一方面，人们更喜欢咒骂它。人工智能支持的金融智能平台Sentieo多年来记录了大量的企业电话会议记录，并报告称，2022年，创纪录的179句脏话从记录中被删除，比2021年创下的纪录多出12句。 Certainly there was no shortage of things to cuss about last year, between the bear market, war in Ukraine, rising energy costs and other bad stuff. But it turns out the volume of office swearing last year was nearly triple that of 2008, when markets everywhere crashed and unemployment soared. All the F-bombs bursting in air these days says a lot about how society has changed. There aren’t TV network censors anymore to shield us from the seven forbidden words because social networks replaced them. When people work in their slippers instead of Cole Haans, their tongues loosen. “Business formality is on the way out,” a Sentieo executive explained when The Wall Street Journal looked into 2021’s bumper crop of workplace cussing. As a service to readers, I reviewed conference-call transcripts to gauge the effectiveness of CEO swearing. As we all know, for swearing to stick with the listener it must have either shock or humor value or both. I’m sad to say the CEOs are dismal failures. Humor and shock don’t really fit in the conference-call genre, so the swearing comes off as boorish and ill-considered. For instance, when the CEO of Centennial Bank, a lender with branches in Manhattan, was asked about the impact of rising interest rates, he grumbled about “how much [expletive] do we take.” And then there’s the CEO of European airline Ryanair complaining about London’s main airport by saying, “I have no time for the [expletive] [expletive] that comes out of Heathrow.” Now that they’re swearing more, it’s incumbent on business leaders to swear better. Leading by example is what they’re paid to do, after all. Happily, no consultants need to be consulted, no power points pointed to in order to do better. Business leaders, whoever you may be, for the good of your company this week you are directed to watch Blazing Saddles or The Jerk. Watch and learn swearing from the masters. The week ahead Jan. 17 Signature Bank reports earnings. This small-business lender was one of the few banks to serve the cryptocurrency community and is paying the price for that now, with billions of dollars in deposits heading out the door. Metropolitan Commercial Bank, which recently said it would withdraw from the crypto world, reports earnings on Friday. Jan. 18 The City Council holds a hearing on the proliferation of unlicensed smoke shops across the city. Experts reckon there are more than 1,000 stores illegally selling cannabis , and authorities are trying to crack down as licensed operators begin to open. Jan. 19 M&T Bank reports earnings. This lender has historically been one of banking’s best performers, but the stock has gotten hit hard recently amid concerns over slowing growth. A new president and CFO will soon be in place. Sign up for Crain’s Extra, a deep dive into the week’s most important news, plus a preview of the week ahead. Delivered to your inbox on Sunday afternoons. Email Address