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Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Buzzword Mania

In my two years of living in corporate hell, I think I've come across atleast a dozen individuals who can speak for a couple of hours using nothing else but words and phrases from this list:

  • Back to the drawing board
  • Get our ducks in a row
  • Do the heavy lifting
  • Think outside the box
  • Value-Added
  • Sea Change
  • EOD
  • deliverable
  • actionable
  • metrics
  • synergy
  • core competencies
  • Built from the ground up
  • Drink the Kool-Aid
  • Level playing field
  • Steep learning curve
  • 800-pound gorilla
  • Lion's share
  • Low-hanging fruit
  • leveraging our assets
  • mission-critical
  • moving parts
  • client-focused
  • fudge factor
  • client-based
  • empower
  • peel the onion
  • ethical
  • mission statement
  • out of the loop
  • process
  • service organization
  • initiative
  • recognition
  • streamline
  • boil the ocean
  • globalize
  • exponential
  • high priority
  • dog and pony show
  • push the envelope

Why! oh Why can people not speak like normal human beings!

2 comments:

Mayaavi said...

Good one...:D

Anonymous said...

lol....doesn't anyone uses paradigm nowadays?