101 Business Buzzwords and Jargon
Written by Ron Desi on December 18, 2009 – 7:00 am -Here are 101 business buzzwords I’ve collected over the years. Share yours in the comments section.
- best practices
- touch base
- value-added
- win/win
- up-sell
- bandwidth
- offline
- no-brainer
- quick hit
- point person
- paradigm shift
- tee-up
- budget cuts
- up the flagpole
- slam dunk
- frontline workers
- next step
- COB
- outside the box
- leverage
- social media
- going forward
- above my pay grade
- dovetail
- pick your brains
- circle the wagons
- mission-critical
- strategery
- heads up
- right-size
- drill down
- dashboard
- low-hanging fruit
- actionable
- lessons learned
- customer-driven
- bottom line
- synergize
- co-opetition
- team player
- mission statement
- empower
- ramp-up
- 24/7/365
- The ball’s in your court
- par for the course
- blip on the radar
- due diligence
- real-time
- leadership
- push the envelop
- big picture
- upside
- detail oriented
- sweat equity
- game plan
- Googled
- repurpose
- drop the ball
- throw the baby out with the bathwater
- reinvent the wheel
- deliverables
- elevator speech
- pushback
- diversity
- back-end
- sustainability
- bleeding edge
- ROI
- seemless
- competency
- granularity
- solution driven
- throw it against the wall and see what sticks
- 110%
- change agent
- 80-20
- manage expectation
- It’s not rocket science
- hit the ground running
- globalization
- networked
- it is what it is
- urgent
- proactive
- multi-tasking
- step up to the plate
- boots on the ground
- showstopper
- social network
- transparency
- bootstrap
- don’t upsset the apple cart
- blog
- crtical path
- personal branding
- hunker down
- work-life balance
- streamline
- corporate agility
Posted in Fun @ Work | 2 Comments »

December 18th, 2009 at 9:35 am
Don’t forget this one: Dashboard!
December 18th, 2009 at 9:44 am
Thanks Ryan..I just add dashboard and took out ‘personal branding’ I had it listed twice.