Imagine a comedy line-up with Sarah Millican, award winning ventriloquist Nina Conti and stand up legend Joan Rivers. You’d buy tickets for that wouldn’t you? Though catching a line up like this is rare, why? Because seeing two female comics on the same night is as rare as unicorn milk.
Jargon and gobbledygook, it sounds like a title for a Friday night BBC panel show hosted by David Mitchell, but I’m actually referring to what is more commonly known as corporate lingo or if you want to be straight-talking corporate bullsh*t. Just the other day I heard a classic.
All stand-ups know that nothing is off limits when it comes to material. Break-ups, arguments, embarrassing medical problems, dodgy dates; difficult at the time but laugh-worthy when it come to routines.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, the body which decides which drugs the NHS should prescribe, took over new responsibilities for maintaining public health earlier this year. In September it issued guidelines to schools advising them to measure pupil happiness.
Businesses are taking happiness seriously according to academics. The latest modules on several management schools agendas - described variously by different academic institutions as ‘meaning’, ‘human flourishing’ and ‘subjective wellbeing’ - are all about happiness.
