[Hat-Trick]

“short runway”, or in general anything else that puts a situation or circumstance in a military context when no one is, in fact, at risk of dying.

[mikeus_maximus]

The list excludes:

- lift and shift
- virtuous cycle of activity
- my no-fail five
- pushing the envelope
- sea change
- take ownership
- world class

and so many, many more... http://www.robietherobot.com/buzzword.htm

[Quick Shot]

Personal Cringe maker: ASAP or the long form “As soon as possible”

Is usually totally undefined.

[Responsibility2nd]

Someone should forward this link to Scott Adams.

They way he uses these over done clichés in ‘Dilbert’ is perfect. Just perfect.

Coming from a cubibally based environment, I know I and my colleagues use some of these phrases. Some too many times.

But when used in ‘Dilbert’; they are perfect.

[TADSLOS]

Critical Path

System of Systems

Task Focused

Event Driver

[central_va]

recalibrate

[central_va]

sub optimal

[sodpoodle]

I hate the two most overused words by journalists and politicians;

Our ‘partners’ and ‘the narrative’.

When did literacy, orginality and intellect disappear?

[central_va]

event horizon

[1Old Pro]

Transparent
Hard Stop

[Chewbarkah]

My most hated: “Synergy”. It’s shorthand for, “One stupid bad, two stupids good. Magic makes it so.”

[sevlex]

Plan your work and work your plan.

[BluH2o]

Didn’t see “At the end of the day.”

[BitWielder1]

There will always be jargon, and some become overused.
Even if we ban all of these, there will be new ones tomorrow.

My peeve is "think outside the box" when it comes from people who have yet to master thinking inside the box.

[Hoffer Rand]

“Put a pin in it” What they really mean is “we don’t want to discuss this topic now, because it’s uncomfortable, or we don’t have the competence to effectively debate you, or we don’t want to deal with what you’re going to tell us.”

[KarlInOhio]

“Skin in the game” too often said at a start up company when the boss wants to convert my missed paychecks into stock in the company.

[Sequoyah101]

Some already mentioned but most disliked:

Deep dive
Recycle

[philled]

"Dialogue" (as a verb): I need to dialogue with you...
"Touch voice to voice": meaning I'm too much of an asshat to request a phone call where we can "dialogue"...

[locountry1dr]

Leverage

Engagement, especially “employee engagement”

[mrs. a]

We had a guy on our team once who was referred to as “Spof.”

Single Point Of Failure