And of course, mix & match.
“To enhance shareholder value and redefine our brand, we are right-sizing the Lean TQM Black Belts associates on the Six Sigma Tiger Team.”
And of course, mix & match.
“To enhance shareholder value and redefine our brand, we are right-sizing the Lean TQM Black Belts associates on the Six Sigma Tiger Team.”
Followed by, “We need to liquidate assets.”
I also hear (and say) “bandwidth” a lot in reference to workload. In the same vein, a side conversation is now “taking it offline”.
Yours are all gems but this is my favorite. “Relentless” is almost always negative. Like, “relentless charity” or “relentless generosity.” Why on earth did they pick that work? It sounds all creepy Nazi dystopia to me.
So, have you sent him a Demotivator? Some of those are hilarious.
I heard a good one in real life today: “we have launched the ship of core values”.
exceeding expectations
value adding
refocus on our core values
One team one direction.
A place for everything and everything in its place.
These are all good. I think the OP should proactively synergize them so as to provide maximum stakeholder benefit on a going-forward basis.
It occurred to me that ‘confabbing to maximize our common synergies’ was just adult-speak for ‘Can I copy off your test?’
utilize just in time paradigm to recontextualize the effective total quality management by right-sizing human resources throught innovative actions within a matrix organizational structure to effect maximal results with available expertise
:: runs off to take a shower::
Corridor Conference–Not official enough to be a “meeting”, a corridor conference is where you say the things that you don’t want to be on record as saying. Also used when all the conference rooms are either booked, or have managers squatting in them because their assigned desks are in their oh-so-wonderful…
Open Environment–Translation: No ****ing cover whatsoever.
Both seem like terms that could be put to good use in a high-fantasy setting. I’ve played plenty of tabletop RPGs where we had corridor conferences…in the corridor outside the BBG’s room (or the GWHY’s room). And “open environment” describes way too many places where I’ve fought fantasy RPG battles.
Oh, and the acronyms above (for Big Bad Guy and Guy Who Hires You) reminds me:
TLA–Three-Letter Acronym
ETLA–Extended Three-Letter Acronym
:: shudder ::
You will have to incentivize the assets of your war-band to maximize the returns from acquisition activities while keeping your overhead costs to a minimum.
(Sorry. I can’t do this well. I have too much of a history of writing clearly.
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This is so great that I’m going to have to work it into the novel somehow. Not sure how, though.
“leveraging synergy.”
“Let’s circle (or circle our wagons) on that”
“rightsizing” or “brightsizing.”
“A sense of urgency”
“Eat, drink and puke Program X”
At the end of the day
I was once in a teleconference where somebody used this expression four times. If I had been there in person, I would have kicked him in his low-hanging fruit.
You mean he hadn’t first gained your permission to believe? (Not to be confused with permission to fail.)
Another mistake like that and he’s in line for a departmental restructuring.
I’d say more, but I don’t want to take the whole thread offline. Let’s have a sidebar.
“We eat our own dog food.”
“around” in place of “about”, as in “a conversation around utilizing our capabilities”
“core competency”
“ISO 9xxx”
“Kaizen event”