Oh Gawd, please... stop the corporate lingo/catch phrase/buzz word/acronym abuse!
This rampant corporate cultural disease is snowballing across America's
Action Team meetings filled with corporate puppets attempting to bolster their
Adminisphere's, and I'm ready to spew my stomach contents if subjected to any more.
Do these sheeple actually think, "
I sound fantastic when I talk. These people will really be impressed once they hear what I have to say.”, when we are really thinking, "
What a jag-off"?
I beg my fellow humans and cube farmers to return to simple, direct dialog and effective communication by saying
NO to corporate lingo and
YES to re-
humanizing our work environments.
Here are but a few old and new phrases and terms that are ready for burial.
Please feel free to add your own, but do not use
bullets to list them! Try not to use too much of your
personal bandwidth either, OK?
interface --I recall this is one of the first one's we started hearing in the early 80's. "I'm
interfacing with a client." Sounds like something fun!
think outside the box --Let's put this one in a box and bury it, unless of course, it occupies the
white space. I'll Twitter a
White Paper on it and
interface with you at today's
power lunch.
value stream --a process in creating yellow snow?
Speaking of "
process", anything related to
business processes and their sub-tongues need to
walk the plank by
COB unless they want to be
RIF'ed in the next
downsizing.
taking point --Sorry, I'm not taking point without an automatic rifle, thank you.
Mission statements/objectives using the words,
synergy, synergize, synergistic, and
value added.
action items --Replaced "tasks" because it
optimizes optimally.
productize --Please, kill me now...