Posted on 06/02/2017 6:16:54 AM PDT by heterosupremacist
1. Blue-sky thinking
2. Idea shower
3. To ‘action’ a project
4. Going forward
5. Brainstorm
6. Getting the ball rolling
7. Drill down
8. Out of the loop
9. Thinking outside the box
10. Touch base
11. Singing from the same hymn-sheet
12. Circle back
13. Strategic fit
14. Bottom line
15. Low hanging fruit
16. Win-win
17. Play hardball
18. Best practice
19. On my radar
20. Bench mark
21. Value added
22. To run an idea up the flagpole
23. Results driven
24. Revert
25. Game-plan .
26. Hit the ground running
27. Customer centric
28. No ‘i’ in team
29. Back to the drawing-board
30. Re-inventing the wheel
31. Dot the ‘i’s and cross the ‘t’s
32. Action plan
33. Bells and whistles
34. Moving the goalposts
35. Back of the net
36. On the same page
37. Open door policy
38. To ‘ping’ an email
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Obama favorite “Let me be clear”.
See my post 70 about business partners.
“At the end of the day....”
“It is what it is”
“In terms of.....”
Usage - “In terms of the end of the day, it is what it is...”
And, of course, it is
Said as the speaker hands you a dirty bath-water slushie to drink with no "baby" in sight.
Proactive! Synergy!
Me too. What is wrong with the more concise and direct “I will call him” or “I will email him?” “Reach out” is so beta and 1970s encounter group touchy-feely.
39. Kick a project into the long grass
40. Joined up thinking
41. Pick up and run with it
42. Streamline
43. Close of play
44. To take an idea or project ‘off piste’
45. Level playing field
46. Quick win
47. In the driving seat
48. No brainer
49. To ‘park’ a project
50. ASAP
Secret sauce
DEEP DIVE
Weez gonna have a sit down.
Sfl....
That is a term that should annoy me, but doesn't. Maybe because it makes a kind of sense. I use it occasionally.
Perhaps we should socialize this list with the stakeholders of the affected workflows. Then we could circle back.
Agree - the phrase is logically correct.
What ever “it” is - that’s what “it” is.
(True at any time of the day - including at the end of the day.)
And, because “it” is - it is probably a “deliverable”.
Nice “dialoging” with you and thanks for reaching out.
Geez, I think 50% of my boss’s vocabulary is made of this list.
The phrase is nothing but a tautology, no different than saying “one equals one.” Of course it does, but saying so contributes nothing to the discourse. It’s just a bunch of empty words, what my uncle used to call “moustache wash.”
I recognize a majority of these phrases from the days of “Zero Defects” and “Total Quality Management (TQM)” from my days in the Aerospace bidnez.
Have a couple of people here at the office who (when sending emails to multiple people) refer to us as “Team”. Pisses me off every time!!!
When I had to deal with Navy on a project the civilian engineers would “pull a thread” which meant they were going to waste an hour or more of our time arguing about something tangential to the main topic.
Going Live, Beta Test, etc.
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