The Language of Business Today
I thought some readers might get a chuckle out of this page of some phrases in use within business these days. Some of my favorites:
Core Competencies
- Context: We need to focus on our core competencies in order to maintain our edge in the marketplace
- Meaning: What you/your company does well
Quick Win
- Context: Please come up with a list of quick wins we can look to implement
- Meaning: Things that are fairly simple (in terms of time and/or cost) and will help improve the situation with regards to a project/product
Touch Base
- Context — “I need to touch base with Fred on this one.”
- Meaning — “I need to go a speak to Fred about something”
Are you enjoying this as much as I am? Well, the Interweb offers plenty more of this. (I mean, does anyone actually say “Pour the Kool-Aid”?)
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I’ve never heard anyone say “pour the Kool-Aid”, but I’ve heard that people have “drank the Kool-Aid” several times.
Hi MD. Indeed, I’ve also heard “drank the Kool-Aid” but “pouring” the Kool-Aid seems to have an entirely different meaning ;).
at my place of biz, the phrases everyone seems to love are “eat your own dog food” and “pick the low hanging fruit”
i see a complete synergy (another over-used word there) of the two if they’d let us stop using a certain wysiwyg-html-editor-that-shall-remain-nameless now, in favor of the other one :D