09 November 2004

Buzzwords from Yesterday's Meeting

"That speaks to...."
"Chotchskies" for "tchotchkes"
"Cast a light"
"Diddo" for "ditto"
"Close to the vest"
"Captured audience"
"Agree fully" as a complete sentence (vs. "I agree fully")
"Take a revisit"
"By the same token"
"Burden of proof"
"Objection handling"
"Where we are hanging our hat"
"Take the playground to a new tier" (my personal favorite)
"Put a stake in the ground"
"Cross-map"
"Shape the fog"
"Ownable"
"Actionable"
"Spitting against the wind"
"Armementarium"
"Lobbing the ball back"
"More legs to it"
"Understand" as a complete sentence (vs. "I understand")
"Negatively differentiated"
"Garnish" as a verb
"Jumping on the fence" (another mixed metaphor)
"Plethora"
"Going forward"
"Drive home"
"Home in on" (God, I hate that one)
"Entrenched"
"Under the ball" (mixed metaphor No. 3)
"Resonate"
"Caveat"
"Trend downward"
"Stake a claim"
"Paradigm"
"'N' of one"
"Suboptimal"
"That's our entree to the field"
"Kick it up a notch"
"At the end of the day"
"Low-hanging fruit"
"Driving growth"
"Catalyze the influence cascade"

Acronyms included:
OIG
DDMAC
QD
BID
PRN
KOL
MOA
SOV
SDI
PC1
R and 2B
AC
ENT
WP
DCR
ASF
AAOP
ACAAI
AAAAI
CME

2 comments:

Sarah said...

Maybe they meant "Vanilla Skying" - where you spend two hours on something you think is meaningful only to find it was all completely pointless.

It'd be more accurate, anyway.

Sarah said...

I was being facetious. But that really is stupid. Not least because when you paint you don't paint a background and then try to paint over it; that wouldn't work at all.