Looks like I hit some hot buttons with my post last week about why we should outlaw corporate jargon.
After drilling down into your comments, I’m seeing a paradigm shift in thinking about the nature of the beast. Some of you said we need to think outside the box and embrace jargon as a value-add.
Others said that using buzz words levels the playing field by getting everyone on the same page. Yet still others argued that jargon puts us behind the eight-ball and limits transparency.
At the end of the day, here’s some more corporate-speak you said you love to hate:
- Slide deck, or deck (relating to PowerPoint presentations)
- Drilling down
- Seamless
- Divide and conquer
- Let’s take this offline
- Reach out (to a client or customer)
- Down-select
- Dovetail
- Herd cats
- G2G (”good to go”)
- Proactive
- Synergy
- “Verbing” nouns (e.g., “to partner”)
- Let’s bounce it off (someone)
- Socialize a concept
- Organic
- Ecosystem
- Glass ceiling
- Window of opportunity
- Throw you under the bus
- Do our due diligence
- Benchmark
- Best practices
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