- organic - we didn't plan anything or research it properly
- synergize - a polite way of asking if one can piggyback off your budget and hard work while diluting your success
- deck - a presentation document peons spend hours poring over for big cheese. Many meetings spent going back and forth over minutiae followed by late nights making change after change.
- weeks of deck preparation typically followed by anticlimactic moment when presentation is given to group of people who derail the discussion or completely tune it out.
- extra bonus points when said big cheese talks on and on, forgetting to click through slides eventually skipping through most of it
- relevance - an irritating word applied to anything that's common sense marketing 101
- resonates - see relevance
- dynamic - a ghost word that has lost all original meaning. now just amorphic filler that can take the shape of any box you'd like put it into.
- engage - not bore the sh!#t out of
- workstream - a fancy term that makes a mundane task sound more important
- tweaks - a polite way to say 'you need to change everything'
- sharepoint/shared workspace - a vison of a utopian world where people can be more efficient and share documents and information. synonym: virtual ghost town
Saturday, October 02, 2010
Office Buzzwords - Exposed!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment