Stop telling your co-workers to ‘think outside the box’

New York Post ^ | April 25, 2018 | SWNS

[sparklite2]

Top 40 most cringe-worthy phrases used at the office

1. Give 110 percent
2. Think outside the box
3. Hammer it out
4. Heavy lifting
5. Throw them under the bus
6. Don’t count your chickens before they’ve hatched
7. Pushing the envelope
8. Let the cat out of the bag
9. Let’s circle back
10. Win-win situation
11. Blue-sky thinking
12. Boil the ocean
13. Synergy
14. Low-hanging fruit
15. Take it to the next level
16. Barking up the wrong tree
17. Going forward
18. Let’s ballpark this
19. Run this up the flagpole
20. Back to square one
21. There’s no I in team
22. Back to the drawing board
23. Paradigm shift
24. Elephant in the room
25. Raise the bar
26. Drill down
27. Best thing since sliced bread
28. Deep dive
29. Skin in the game
30. Reach out
31. Touch base
32. Play hardball
33. Don’t reinvent the wheel
34. Kept in the loop
35. The bottom line
36. Down the road
37. I’ll loop you in
38. Hit the nail on the head
39. ASAP
40. Team player

[Professional Engineer]

I prefer “think outside the bun”

The millenials don’t get it.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

I know it had a very short shelf life, but if you ever got disintermediated then you done got laid off.

[Lazamataz]

There’s no I in team

[Portcall24]

That that is is that that is not is not that is is not that so

The previous sentence needs a slight amount of punctuation.

[outofsalt]

On the opposite side of this coin, phrases that should have been fully onboarded at the outset but, fell off the radar,

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers"

He wasn't, "the bard" for nothin'!

[who_would_fardels_bear]

The elephant in the room ate all the low-hanging fruit so we had to think outside the bun and go for a run to the border.

[SharpRightTurn]

A seat at the table.
Iconic.
Got your back.

[djf]

I hate that “no I in team” crap.

Name one scientific/engineering example that was devised by a consensus.

[Fred Hayek]

This is what is taught in MBA schools as “communication”. Thus MBA stands for Master Bullsh!t Artist.

[Palio di Siena]

Granular.

[SkyDancer]

You have to think outside the box otherwise you’re to focused on what’s in front of you. You have to step back and look at the problem from “outside the box” to see the details.

[djf]

How bout this one...

“Diversity is our strength!”

[willyd]

woke
sjw
cisgender
mansplaining

[Secret Agent Man]

They forgot the worst one.

Lets unpack this....

[Mom MD]

Yup barf

[gigster]

I haven’t worked in an office since 1981, and never heard hardly any of those tired sayings.

[Flick Lives]

Ballpark it.

[leaning conservative]

This & the revolting brag, “I wear many hats.”

[Flick Lives]

MBA stands for Master Bullsh!t Artist.

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PHD. Piled higher and deeper.

[Monterrosa-24]

It is easy to take jabs at folks for using the overused but it takes a wordsmith to come up with a better phrase. I kinda like some clichés. So don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.