My Banned Words for 2017
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Just for fun, here is a list of buzzwords, biz speak, and hipster droppings that should be banned from every business meeting forevermore. In my last banned word rant in 2014, I opined about a proleptic conversation that began,
Client: “Our Big Data Rock Star ideated a cloud-based, scalable, native programmatic tool set that produced excellent learnings.”
Me: “Well, it sounds like he took it to the next level efforting 110% to craft a best practices, robust solution you can leverage, and it’s clearly out of the box thinking but maybe you shouldn’t try to boil the ocean it’s got a lot of moving parts and I’m not sure it’s something you want to take ownership of. You might be accused of punching the puppy, so the optics are all wrong. We should probably put this in the parking lot.”
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