Let's discuss the buzzword culture of business

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You just don't understand what synergy means baw

Let me show you a slidedeck about our mission statement and our department's core competencies

ETA - I spend a lot of time in meetings with corporate executives. I find it all kind of ridiculous too

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The idea that you must say a lot of nothing (aka buzzwords) in order to appear knowledgeable/successful/whatever has gotten ridiculous. Speak like a regular person. It won't make you sound like an idiot if you're not already an idiot. In fact, most people who rely heavily on business buzzwords sound like morons anyway. Get to the point and stop going in circles

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This has potential. Why don’t you and the team whiteboard this and get back to me.

Seems like interfacing with executives may be outside of your wheelhouse.

You sound like you haven’t collaborated enough with your team or used the proper resources at your disposal in order to develop the proper synergy to attack the adversity and challenges presented to you

At the end of the day
To the extent
Baked into the solution
Agile vs waterfall
Scrum Master
In my opinion
Deep dive
Lessons Learned
Flesh out the details
Offer line of sight
Causing me to be stressed
KPIs
Strategic thinking
Thought leadership
Business acumen
Increase shareholder value




THE word I never want to hear a grown adult say in the workplace which I fricking hear all the time: “basically”.

“Well, basically what we have is.....”. Remove that word from your vocabulary please.

You need to leverage your capabilities if you are in a nimble matrix managed organization.

You just watch the movie Office Space didn’t you?

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Good idea.. let’s circle back around to that later on.

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Or we could pivot to an ancillary concept...