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New Term9/28/2025
Attribution
A fancy way of declaring that we are doing everything we can to figure out why/who/where to assign credit for something. Often it just means we are changing the
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Wall Post🌐 linkedin.com9/26/2025
Corporate Jargon to Drop in 2024
Hot on the heels (urghhh! I just used some corporate jargon) of my Corporate Speak of the Year awards I announce the Corporate Jargon words that did my head in over 2023. Don
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New Term9/26/2025
Meetingception Protocol
Meetingception Protocol: A corporate strategy designed to maximize productivity by scheduling multiple layers of meetings, ensuring that the only action taken i
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New Term9/26/2025
Lean Pipeline
When someone says Lean Pipeline, it’s often code for ‘we don’t really know what this means, but it sounds innovative.’
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Wall Post🌐 theguardian.com9/26/2025
Here's my offer. I'm giving you sight of the horrors of corporate jargon
Guardian article exposing horrors of corporate jargon
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Wall Post🌐 linkedin.com9/25/2025
What in the what
#KeyInnovators: Jonathan Sutter; Richard Branson; David Neeleman; Charles Schwab; Barbara Corcoran (The Walt Disney Company #SharkTank); #Musk (Google Data Sep 20 2025) The Walt Disney Company ESPN NBCUniversal CBS Fox News TV MSNBC CNN The Wall Street Journal The New York Times Apple Microsoft Google Oracle University of Washington MicrosoftThe University of Texas at Austin Major League Baseball (MLB) American Airlines National Football League (NFL) United Airlines Delta Air Lines McKinsey & Co
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New Term9/25/2025
Neural Transformation
Neural Transformation is a shiny phrase that tends to generate more steering committees than real outcomes.
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New Term9/25/2025
Alignment
A corporate buzzword for "everyone pretending to agree" while secretly having completely different ideas about what they're supposed to be doing.
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New Term9/24/2025
Hybrid Transformation
Hybrid Transformation promises sweeping change, though in practice it’s usually just a rebrand of existing processes.
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New Term9/23/2025
2.0
A corporate way of saying "we fixed some stuff" that makes minor updates sound like revolutionary breakthroughs, usually followed by 3.0, 4.0, and so on.
👀 583 views📅 9/23/2025
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New Term9/23/2025
Magic bullet
A mythical solution that will solve all problems instantly, usually promised by consultants and salespeople who know such things don't exist but hope you don't.
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New Term9/22/2025
Context
A corporate euphemism for "excuse" that makes justification sound like sophisticated explanation, usually used when someone wants to explain why they screwed up
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New Term9/21/2025
Lean Alignment
This terminological construct embodies an epistemological paradox, serving as an omnipresent abstraction that engenders a simulacrum of efficacy within the corp
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New Term9/21/2025
Customer-led growth
Growth-related corporate speak that promises exponential results with minimal effort.
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New Term9/17/2025
Radical candor
A management approach that combines caring personally with challenging directly, like tough love for the workplace.
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New Term9/17/2025
Next best action
The optimal next step to take with a customer based on their behavior, preferences, and current context.
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Wall Post🌐 linkedin.com9/16/2025
5 Marketing Buzzwords to Ditch in 2025
LinkedIn post on marketing buzzwords to eliminate
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New Term9/15/2025
Zero-Trust Initiative
A lexiconic enigma that encapsulates the quintessence of vacuity, serving as an emblematic accolade for collective mediocrity in the corporate arena.represents
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New Term9/15/2025
Fire drill
A corporate euphemism for "crisis we created" that makes poor planning sound like an emergency, usually caused by someone who forgot to do their job and now nee
👀 676 views📅 9/15/2025