More meaningless business idioms that signify the speaker is an unthinking robot*

the porous city

Anna asked about this and I couldn't come up with enough in real time. I've done this before.

Key, e.g. "key drivers of profitability". Accused of: vagueness. Usually used as a synonym for "most important", but even that's too vague. Important why? Are they statistically most predictive? Are they the drivers most important for you to act on in the long term? Or just the most important for purposes of today's discussion?
Choiceful. For fuck's sake.
Drill down, e.g. "drill down to the key drivers of profitability." Nothing inherently wrong with it, I'm just sick of hearing it.

*I don't mean to sound contemptuous. I've used all of these, even choiceful. It's all love. Love and tireless self-criticism in the service of the revolution.

last modified: 11:18:40 06-Oct-2006
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2 Comments

i'd add blustery consulting-speak verbs such as "maximize" and "optimize."

posted by ejb

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oo, good ones

posted by Lukas

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