{"id":6094,"date":"2008-06-19T06:22:48","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T06:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2008\/06\/popular-and-irritating-corporate-expressions\/"},"modified":"2008-06-19T06:22:48","modified_gmt":"2008-06-19T06:22:48","slug":"popular-and-irritating-corporate-expressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2008\/06\/popular-and-irritating-corporate-expressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular and irritating corporate expressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Have you been on the corporate roller coaster for sometime?  Then you may have come across many expressions that for some reason have become very popular\u2026. and irritating at the same time.  Are you on the <b>same page <\/b> as me?  Ok.. there I go\u2026 \ud83d\ude42  Enjoy.. and share yours as well..<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Ok\u2026 for starters \u2013 this has to be the classic statement of the corporate century \u2013 <b>You can\u2019t have your cake and eat it, so you have to step up to the plate and face the music<\/b><br>\n\u2013 <b>Going forward<\/b>, we will read more..<br>\n\u2013 The phrase <i>brain storm<\/i> is <b>getting off the ramp<\/b> \u2013 because it might have negative connotations associated with fits. So some folks now take <b>idea showers.<\/b><br>\n\u2013 You have heard about <i>product evangelist<\/i>.. now geeks want to be <b>platform atheists<\/b> so that their computers will run programs from any manufacturer<br>\n\u2013 Incentivise<br>\n\u2013 how many times has your colleague wanted to <b>touch base<\/b> about something <b>\u201coffline\u201d<\/b><br>\n\u2013 Oh yes .. and some people simply <b>\u201cloop back\u201d<\/b>!<br>\n\u2013 And does your company need a <b>\u201cholistic, cradle-to-grave approach\u201d<\/b>?<br>\n\u2013 Has your boss got you <b>on her radar<\/b>?<br>\n\u2013 You surely know that you dont have problems any more.. simply <b>challenges<\/b>!<br>\n\u2013 And yes, everyone and her brother is after the ubiquitous \u201c<b>low hanging fruit<\/b>!<!--break--><br>\n\u2013 And how many people have volunteered by saying <b>\u201chow can I help in this space?\u201d<\/b>??  Only if they knew that <u>the<\/u> Space is full of vacuum!  So whatever\u2026<br>\n\u2013 And if you are quick one.. you would be on to something <b>\u201cfrom the get-go\u201d<\/b>!<br>\n\u2013 With so many quacks in the corporate world out there.. people are trying to <b>get all their ducks in a row<\/b>\u2026<br>\n\u2013 And hey do you have <b>enough bandwidth<\/b>?<br>\n\u2013 if you are into information management then <b>granularity<\/b> and <b>cascading<\/b> should be your regular <b>staple<\/b> unless of course, you want to <b>drill down<\/b><br>\n\u2013 Ok.. now that we have the <b>10,000 foot view<\/b> of the corporate vocabulary \u2013 would you share your favorite?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you been on the corporate roller coaster for sometime?  Then you may have come across many expressions that for some reason have become very popular&#8230;. and irritating at the same time.  Are you on the <b>same page <\/b> as me?  Ok.. there I go&#8230; \ud83d\ude42  Enjoy.. and share yours as well..<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Ok&#8230; for starters &#8211; this has to be the classic statement of the corporate century &#8211; <b>You can&#8217;t have your cake and eat it, so you have to step up to the plate and face the music<\/b><br \/>\n&#8211; <b>Going forward<\/b>, we will read more..<br \/>\n&#8211; The phrase <i>brain storm<\/i> is <b>getting off the ramp<\/b> &#8211; because it might have negative connotations associated with fits. 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