What's a buzzword you love to hate?

[Sbti]

"I've got this." "You've got this!"

[bcm119]

This is a great read on this topic:
Why Do Corporations Speak the Way They Do?

Mine is using ask as a noun. What's the ask here?

[j44ke]

We are efforting that presently.

Can I plate that for you?

[rwsaunders]

Flesh out...I do like freak out.

[Too Tall]

Fwiiw

[NYCfixie]

Anytime the word unique has an adverb before it - I leave the room.

"The MOST unique"

That's a somewhat unique sentiment

I am not sure most people know how to use this word and their individual use of it is not always "totally" unique.

And the misuse of "Fire" drives me crazy. Does it mean something is literally "on fire", figuratively "on fire", or that you are "Financially Independent and are going to Retire Early"?

[deano]

Heartening to see so many who care about words and meaning. I could have expected that around here.

[Bob Ross]

I really dislike seeing leverage used as a verb.

How'bout transition as a verb?

I'm hyper-sensitive to the use of any noun as a verb. As a friend once astutely & sublimely pointed out "In corporate-speak any noun can be verbed."


The one that gets my goat more recently is "What's our exposure?" Sweet jesus, either call it "financial risk" or just say "how much money do we stand to lose?"

[slwrnu]

hopefully. it is about doing something with an optimistic frame of mind. and decimate. this does not mean extreme damage, but to reduce by ten per cent.

[CJones]

The marketing director at work loves to work “silos” into every meeting.
I guess we’re farmers now?

[Blue Jays]

It is imperative that we each swim in our own lane for this thread.

[houston]

It is imperative that we each swim in our own lane for this thread.

Not so fast, Blue Jays. That would be building silos. I don't have the bandwidth to tear down silos. I will de-select that ask.

[Ras72]

We have obtained this success through organic growth but at the of the day staying true to ourselves makes us pop in comparison.

My word! I struggle putting that sentence together and can’t bear to read it.

[Too Tall]

"Take a beat".

[GrantM]

What do we anticipate will be the net net of this thread at the end of the day?

No doubt, a win win win to the triple bottom line (3BL) !

[Nierman]

game-changer

[Colinmclelland]

"going forward" (oh, that's two words I guess).

"blah blah blah going forward...." so glad you stipulated that the thing we are discussing will not take place in the past.

Buzzphrases. My favourite version of this is “our strategy going forward”. Thank heavens it’s not one of those strategies for the past like so many other people develop.

I worked for a company “positioning for growth”. That means getting way smaller than they currently are.

“All credit to them, they gave 110%.”

Ooh, and “reach out” and “let’s touch base”. FFS.

[Scott G.]

I bow to Commander Salamander, who has composed this........

Proactively “From the Sea”; an agent of change leveraging the littoral best practices for a paradigm breaking six-sigma best business case to synergize a consistent design in the global commons, rightsizing the core values supporting our mission statement via the 5-vector model through cultural diversity.

[ldamelio]

I have two:

'trigger' and 'microaggression'

Some people live their lives hunting for reasons to be offended. Grow a set.

[Matthew Strongin]

I hate this thread. Did you guys hack into my email?