How about a real shower? They usually smell.
Obama favorite “Let me be clear”.
“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
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
Perhaps we should socialize this list with the stakeholders of the affected workflows. Then we could circle back.
Geez, I think 50% of my boss’s vocabulary is made of this list.
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.
All of you Freepers are invited to further discuss these terms down the hall here in our new “Collaboration Room”.
This guy uses all the jargon.
“There is a new spirit running through the Democratic Party,”Mr. Ellison said. “We’re coming out strong. We’re knocking every door. We’re a ‘coast to coast and everyone in between’ party. We’re involved in all these things. Where as before we might have been too focused on the presidential every four years, now we fight these things every single day and everywhere so that is a new way of moving forward and it’s winning politics.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3557410/posts
-wrap my head around it
-get in front of
-push to conclusion
gag, I work with people who do nothing but go to meetings
and talk this crap, I call it buzz word bingo
This is what MBAs invent to make it look lime they do something important.
Now of you’ll excuse me I ha e to go through my action item list while I shift my paradigms.
I would love an odea shower with some Russian prostitutes. Best in the world I hear.
Before every staff meeting I printed a copy of my “Wonk Word Bingo” game. Every time someone spit out one of those annoying phrases and it was in one of the boxes I’d X out that box. It was interesting to see how long it would take to hit a bingo. I was in H.R. so it didn’t take too long.
“synergy”
“leverage”
How about “not in my wheelhouse”?
Or, “marque el dos”.
We haven’t listed “sustainable” yet. Hate it, hate it, hate it.
Then there’s “doubling down on...” Yuck, ew, yuck!
“Players” instead of “participants”
“Called on the carpet”
Worse yet, “a come to Jesus moment”
“resources” when you actually mean “employees” — hate! hate!
“silos”
“road warriors”
“expense” used as a verb — “I expensed that meal”
“monetize”