The world of business is under the same communications overload as any other area of contemporary life.  If anything, the noise level is greater in the workplace, and gets louder and more intolerable the higher we look on the organization chart.

It should therefore not come as a surprise to find techniques of passive-engagement communication taking root in the internal operations of contemporary corporations.

Their most skillful practitioners currently tend to be management consultants, but increasingly, the techniques are being picked up by anyone who hopes to get through to key decision makers.