Language is the fastest way to bring any transformation to a standstill.

Language is the fastest way to bring any transformation to a standstill.

And it happens faster than you think:

🔹 Statements that are hard to understand.

🔹 Complicated wording.

🔹 Packed with specialist terminology.

The result: follow-up questions, misunderstandings, lost time.

And in the end, everyone wonders why “nothing is moving forward”.

My hypothesis – as a non-psychologist:

Overcomplicated language is rarely an accident.

It is a mixture of arrogance, internal logic, protection of power – and fear of change.

I see this in many industries:

📌 Doctors who deliver diagnoses in Latin mode.

📌 Lawyers with three pages of legalese.

📌 Engineers with cryptic abbreviations.

📌 Public authorities with paralysing, never-ending sentences.

And often, too: leaders who talk a lot – but say nothing.

Language excludes.

Language creates dependency.

Language is misused as a status symbol.

And above all:

Language is culture – and culture determines the pace of implementation.

My conclusion:

More clarity = more speed.

More jargon = more standstill.