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I'm the person who gets these sorts of emails at my company, and just a few words in one of his emails really caught my attention! "Would love to work on this

I'm the person who gets these sorts of emails at my company, and just a few words in one of his emails really caught my attention! "Would love to work on this mission with you and the team" .. yeah, yeah, generic blah, everyone says that. "and I won't take it for granted." Ok, wow, I rarely have people make promises like that. It sounds genuine and even if it's not, it's a point I can pull someone up on later on if they're screwing around. Sending off some generic corporate speech will rarely work with me, but if someone acts a little more personably and shows they have some sort of emotional skin in the game, I'm all ears.

travisjungroth 7y ago
> if someone acts a little more personably and shows they have some sort of emotional skin in the game, I'm all ears. Which why generic corporate speech is just an arms race of faking that you have emotional skin in the game. Saying you'd "love to work on this mission with you and the team" was once enough. Now, you also have to say that you "won't take it for granted" to catch your attention. I wonder what the next step will be.
- chrismarlow9 7y ago
  > I wonder what the next step will be. https://youtu.be/JWdZEumNRmI https://youtu.be/JWdZEumNRmI ?
- petercooper 7y ago
  I guess. But if someone comes up with something new, that shows they recognize the banality of the corporate speech and came up with something new. Almost no-one actually bothers to do this (judging from years of banal, generic bizdev type emails I've received).