Management/Corporate phrases

[Moodyman]

Here's some of my most loathed management phrases, love to hear yours:
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• 'We'd better not let the grass grow too long on this one'​
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• 'Take a holistic approach'​
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• 'Brain-storm'​
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• 'Stakeholders'​
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• 'Touch base'​
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• '360 degree feedback'​

My favourite was when a colleague who too busy to take on extra work, said, 'I don't have the bandwidth'​

 

[swee'pea99]

Rank Xerox once termed redundancy 'enforced secondary career opportunity'.

 

[siadwell]

Ecosystem.

 

[philipbh]

Space

 

[Fnaar]

Working in silos. Feck off.... I'm not a farmer, you twonk!

 

[psmiffy]

White space thinking

 

[2Loose]

Going forward

 

[RecordAceFromNew]

Synergy
Outside the box
Big picture
Helicopter view
Downsize
Rightsize (= Downsize)
Groupthink
Empower
Teamplayer
Strategise
My way or highway
Screw or be screwed...

 

[Slowgrind]

Concrete's late!
You can stay on for a while, can't you?

 

[Fnaar]

I don't think "run that up your flagpole" has been used for some time...

 

[philipbh]

Lets take this discussion off-line

 

[Fnaar]

Let's put some hay in the nosebag and see if the animal eats *

(*I just made that up )

 

[Fnaar]

"I don't want to be an agenda-bender, but..."

(heard that on another forum, some years ago)

 

[threebikesmcginty]

sh1t or get off the pan - is that one?

 

[slowmotion]

You can print out Bullshit Bingo cards on this website.

http://www.bullshitbingo.net/

The words are a bit less toe-curling than the the usual "coffee-sprayers", but they still help pass the time in meetings.