We are going to need to mine big data if our omnichannel experience is truly going to be customer-centric.
rw saunders
hey, how lucky can one man get.
Has anyone mentioned the word gravel?
I hate how so many in my trade have - and here’s another word - appropriated it.
--- search n' destroy...
ronnie
One of my favorites is the use of tactical in a negative sense. Like, "Bob is too tactical when solutioning business opportunities; he should be more strategic."
It's as if the entire business world forgot what tactical means and instead thinks that strategy is a good approach to problem solving and tactical is a bad approach to problem solving.
Also, opportunity used in place of problem. Being negative is so frowned upon that we've created euphemisms for all negative terms, which in turn makes a bunch of positive words sound bad.
My personal shame is that I have to use all these words at work (in certain settings) so that people understand what I'm communicating. It makes me sad.
"I guess you're some weird relic of an obsolete age." - davids
I don't think this qualifies as a buzzword, but it drive me crazy to have a conversation with a young person who interjects ----
like
Like, after every 4th word like, that comes out of their like, mouth.
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Steve Hampsten
www.hampsten.blogspot.com
“Maybe chairs shouldn’t be comfortable. At some point, you want your guests to leave.”
If it’s acceptable to have issues with phrases:
Warrior-Mindset
"most importantly" instead of "most important" The "-ly" takes some of the power out of the words.
Also, I'm tired of hearing the most overused word during interviews on the radio, "Absolutely!"
Mark Walberg
Building bike frames for fun since 1973.
Not so much a corporate word, but 'amazing' is used so often that we're going to need a new word for things that actually are amazing.
This falls under the evening of nouns. “Voiced”. Complete nurse speak. “The patient voiced that their finger hurts”.
And the response to any question, “I’m good”. My response is usually something like, “Well you’re awfully complementary to yourself today, aren’t you?”
I’m sure I can think of more.
The last few months (after some significant restructuring) the one I'm most tired of is "pain point".
Kyle Olson
Vector. But used to mean factor.
-- latrine...
ronnie
verbage
re: gravel
the worst thing is when a buzzword comes to define something once it bounces back and then sucks all the elegance or subtlety out of it. before it bounced back recently one bought a single or album to play on a record player or a turntable, now you buy a vinyl to play on your vinyl player.
similarly, one no longer rides fire roads/backroads/logging trails/towpaths/etc. on one's all-terrain/cyclocross/offroad touring/reasonably clearanced road bike, one rides gravel on a gravel bike. now with gravel swallowing up all the nuance that used to exist we've got to come up with new buzzwords like road plus, allroad, groad, adventure, tracklocross... none of which really imply anything about where or how or for what purpose one rides, of course.
some may ask: why rock out now?
the answer is simple - these are the times that rock mens' souls
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