{"id":638,"date":"2012-12-31T19:15:44","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T00:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markkirkwood.com\/?p=638"},"modified":"2012-12-31T19:20:17","modified_gmt":"2013-01-01T00:20:17","slug":"some-annoying-pretentious-and-useless-business-jargon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.markkirkwood.com\/?p=638","title":{"rendered":"Some Annoying, Pretentious and Useless Business Jargon…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cJargon masks real meaning,\u201d<\/em> <\/strong>says Jennifer Chatman, management professor at the University of California-Berkeley\u2019s Haas School of Business. \u201cPeople use it as a substitute for thinking hard and clearly about their goals and the direction that they want to give others.\u201d<\/p>\n

That said, here is a glossary of some of the most annoying business jargon<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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  1. Core Competency<\/li>\n
  2. Buy-In<\/li>\n
  3. S.W.A.T. Team<\/li>\n
  4. Swim Lane<\/li>\n
  5. Empower<\/li>\n
  6. Drinking the Kool-Aid<\/li>\n
  7. Move the Needle<\/li>\n
  8. Open the Kimono<\/li>\n
  9. Bleeding Edge<\/li>\n
  10. Tiger Teams<\/li>\n
  11. Burning Platform<\/li>\n
  12. Lots of Moving Parts<\/li>\n
  13. Corporate Values<\/li>\n
  14. Make Hay<\/li>\n
  15. Scaleable<\/li>\n
  16. Best Practice<\/li>\n
  17. Think Outside the Box<\/li>\n
  18. Ducks in a Row<\/li>\n
  19. Ecosystem<\/li>\n
  20. Solution<\/li>\n
  21. Leverage<\/li>\n
  22. Vertical<\/li>\n
  23. Over the Wall<\/li>\n
  24. Full Service<\/li>\n
  25. Drill Down<\/li>\n
  26. It is What it Is<\/li>\n
  27. Robust<\/li>\n
  28. Take Offline<\/li>\n
  29. Synergize<\/li>\n
  30. Learnings<\/li>\n
  31. Boil the Ocean<\/li>\n
  32. Reach Out<\/li>\n
  33. Hard Stop<\/li>\n
  34. Punt<\/li>\n
  35. Impact<\/li>\n
  36. Giving 110%<\/li>\n
  37. Body of Work<\/li>\n
  38. Let’s Talk That<\/li>\n
  39. Price Point<\/li>\n
  40. Take it to the Next Level<\/li>\n
  41. Cut and Dry<\/li>\n
  42. Out of Pocket<\/li>\n
  43. Window of Opportunity<\/li>\n
  44. Low-Hanging Fruit<\/li>\n
  45. Peel the Onion<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    \u201cJargon masks real meaning,\u201d says Jennifer Chatman, management professor at the University of California-Berkeley\u2019s Haas School of Business. \u201cPeople use it as a substitute for thinking hard and clearly about their goals and the direction that they want to give others.\u201d That said, here is a glossary of some of the most annoying business jargon: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.markkirkwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.markkirkwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.markkirkwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.markkirkwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.markkirkwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.markkirkwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.markkirkwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.markkirkwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.markkirkwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}