- Do you hate going forward? Do you shudder when a colleague wants to reach out? Are you disgusted by low-hanging fruit, sick of being on the team, and reluctant to open the kimono?
- Does the phrase blue-sky thinking make you see red?
- Do you really want to drill down or take a helicopter view?
- Are you past caring whether the key drivers are going to move the needle? Should anyone really punch a puppy?
- And can you bear to hear about a big hairy audacious goal?
- If modern office jargon makes you want to throw up, this book is for you. Taking a hilarious and scathing deep dive into the most hated and absurd examples of corporate-speak it is a huge moment for verbally downtrodden workers everywhere.
Personally I hate:
- think outside the box
- hop on a call
- jump on a call
- it’s not rocket science
- wrinkle (used instead of problem)
- e-anything (as in e-id, e-government)
- skill set
- sustainable
- baked in
- holistic
- seedbed
- best practice
- drop the ball
- social media
- SMART and SWOT analyses
- at the end of the day
Added by readers (thank you!)
- Ticks all the right boxes
- Let’s run with that
- Inbox me…….. What’s wrong with Email me?
- Ping that to me…. ditto!
- circle back
- deep dive
- level set
- let’s unpack that
- going forward
- take ownership
- locked and loaded
- push the envelope
- Facebook me
- lead from the front
- let’s get onboard then
- my conclusions are informed by the activist narrative.