Dusted Design Partners Limited

17.06.08

David

You can’t turn a tanker round with a speedboat change

A photographer friend of mine told me today he didn’t want to be a photographer anymore, but instead, was going to be a ‘digital imaging poet’. Sounded like a great idea to me and we arranged to ‘touch base about it offline’ later (during one of our regular ‘idea showers’). We’ll no doubt be ‘getting our ducks in a row’ while looking to ‘leverage a holistic cradle-to-grave approach’ too. I think. Not sure…

Anyway, an interesting article on the BBC site today lists the 50 office-speak phrases we love to hate as judged by responses to Lucy Kellaway’s article about ridding the world of the phrase ‘going forward’. For convenience, I’ve listed them here so you can play buzzword bingo in your next meeting:

1. Going forward
2. Idea showers
3. Platform atheists
4. Incentivise
5. Let’s touch base about that offline
6. Loop back
7. You can’t turn a tanker around with a speed boat change
8. We need a holistic, cradle-to-grave approach
9. I’ve got you in my radar
10. Challenge
11. Low hanging fruit
12. Looking under the bonnet
13. Pre-prepare
14. Forward planning
15. Pre-plan
16. Conversate
17. Sprinkling our magic
18. In this space
19. From the get-go
20. Go forward together
21. 360-degree thinking
22. We are still optimistic things will feed through the sales and delivery pipeline
23. We’d better not let the grass grow too long on this one
24. Get all my ducks in a row
25. Auspiced by
26. We’ve got our fingers down the throat of the organisation of that nodule
27. My door is open on this issue
28. Close of play
29. Actioning
30. And also in addition
31. 110%
32. Not enough bandwidth
33. You can’t have your cake and eat it, so you have to step up to the plate and face the music
34. Capture your colleagues
35. Paradigm shifts
36. Stakeholders
37. Come to the party
38. Feeding it back
39. Cascading
40. A really cool train set
41. Granularity
42. Leverage
43. Reduction in workforce
44. Living the values
45. 2.0
46. Strategic staircase
47. In negative territory
48. Drill down
49. High altitude view
50. Wouldn’t want to wrongside the demographic

Business, Life
bbc, buzzword bingo, buzzwords, corporate buzzwords, going forward, lucy kellaway

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