February 14th, 2010
I found a file on my computer with all these cliches. I don’t know where or how I got those! A quick Python cleanup, and here is a non-sense list of business cliché you can conveniently use in your daily life.
[something] on steroids, (get on your) dance card, (Getting some) traction, (He’s gone) off the reservation, (I’ve got a) full plate, (These customers need) hand holding, (We don’t want to be) all things to all people, (We’re getting some) push-back, 800 pound gorilla, A leading provider of…, A Plus for all Stakeholders, Actionable, Architect used as a verb, At the end of the day,…, at the end of the day…., Back of the envelope, ballpark figure, Ballpark figure, Barniff, Bells and whistles, Benchmark, Best of Breed, Best Practices, Better to apologize later than ask permission first, Bio break, Blue Sky Thinking, Boots on the ground, Brick and Morter, Bring our ‘A’ game . . . , Bring to the table, Brings a lot of value to the table, Built from the ground up, Burn rate, business athlete, Business casual, Business needs, By way of housekeeping…, Cannibalize, Carpet bombing, Carrot and stick, Cast a wider net, Certified…, Change Agent, Chest thumping, circle back, Circle back around, Client-Centered, Color outside the lines, Come to Jesus, contemporize the portfolio, core competency, Corporate DNA, Cost center, create something remarkable, Crossing the Chasm, Crowd-Sourcing, Custom Engineered Solutions, customizable, Data driven, Differentiate, Directionally Correct, Disintermediation, Disruptive innovation, Divide and Conquer, Do no evil, Do you have any bandwidth?, Don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater, Downsizing, Drink the company Kool-aid, drinking from a firehose, Drinking Kool-Aid, Drop the ball, Due Diligence, Dynamic, eat our own dog food, Eat what you kill, Eat your vegetables, Eco-anything, Everyone Is Doing It, Everything is a matter of balance, Execute to plan, Face time, Faster, Cheaper, Better, fat rabbit, Feeding the hopper, Firing on all cylinders, Flexible solutions, Focused on … (i.e. results), For all your [something] needs., From a [something] standpoint, From a high-level perspective,…, Functionality, game changer, game changing, Get on your radar, Giving 110%, Giving 111%, Go off road, Going forward, Going from good to great, Good to go, Gotta raise the bar, Greed Is Good, ground breaking, Halo effect, Has legs and can go really far…, Headcount, Healthy, Herding cats, Hey, we’re not here to boil the ocean., high performance, Honestly…, Hope is not a strategy, I appreciate your candor…, I don’t have the bandwidth, I Heard It Thru The Grapevine…, I need to get flat with you, I’d like to come by and check your temperature., I’ll sharpen the pencil, I’m not throwing him under the bus, but…, Ideation, if we have the courage of our convictions, If you can’t measure it, you can’t control it, Impactful, Improve ROI, In terms of, In the … space, In the trenches with you…, In Today’s Highly Competitive Marketplace …, Incent as a verb, Incentivize, Industry Leader, Industry Standard, integrated approach, Integrated Marketing, intelligent engineering, It is what it is, It is what it is, It’s a birdnest on the ground, It’s a no-brainer, It’s all good, Just for sh_ts & giggles., Just my 2 cents, Lead the charge, Leave money on the table, Lessons will be learned, let’s be carbon neutral, let’s be proactive here people, Let’s get granular, Let’s hit the ground running., Let’s make sure we’re on the same page…, Let’s remember the rule of 212 degrees, Let’s take a deeper dive, Let’s take this off-line, Lets Do Lunch!, Lets Trade Links, Level Playing Field, Level set, leverage resources, Like facebook but for [something], Like minded, Lone ranger, Long tail, Look the part, Loss Leader, Low-hanging fruit, Manage expectations, Marketing-driven, Maximize customer satisfaction, Maximize leverage, Mindshare, mission critical, Momentum, Monetize, monetize, Money talks and bull$#!^ walks, Move the Needle, Moving up the value chain, Multi task, my success is your success, My way or the highway, net-net, Never trust a Salesman, New and Improved, Next Generation, Next steps, No Achievement is Without Sacrifice. dc, Noise in The System, Now More Than Ever, Off- Ramp, offline, On the [something] side,…, On-Ramp, open kimono, organic growth, Our go-to-market strategy, Our people are our best asset, Our Talk Track, Out-Of-Pocket, Paradigm, Paradigm Shift, Passing the Buck, Paving the cowpath, Perfect storm, Pick it up and sit on it, Ping, Plug-and-Play, Points of Distraction, Polishing a Turd, Pound the table, precision engineered, proactive, Pull-through Sales, purple cow, Push the envelope, Put a face to the name, Put a stake in the Ground, Putting lipsitick on a pig, Quality is job one, Quick Wins, Quite frankly…, Ramp-up, Razors and razorblades, Re-Imagine, Re-invented, Re-organization, Reach out, Ready, fire, aim, Real Time Meeting, Reduction of force, Resonate, Rightsizing, Rigor, Robust, Robust and customer-focused, Robustize, Rubber hits the road, Run it up the flagpole and see who salutes, scalability, Scalable, Screw the pooch, seamless integration, SEO (to describe anything on the internet), SEO (to describe anything on the internet), Shared Vision, Shit Happens, Shoot first, ask questions later, showstopper, Silo, Six Sigma, Skate to where the puck is going, Skyrocket your profits, Smile and dial, Solution, solutions, Someone (who is) plug and play, Spending more time with my family, Spray and pray, stae-of-the-art, Stakeholder, Stay on message, Stealth, step up to the plate, Step up to the plate, stick a fork in it…. its done, Stick to your knitting, Strategic, Strategic…, Surface key learnings, sustainability, Synergy, Take him out behind the wood shed, Take it to the Next Level, take one for the team, Team building, Team player, Teamwork, Tearing down the silos…, That’s not all!, The 8,000-foot view, The 80%-20% rule, The bottom line, The customer is always right, The Elephant in the room (or the corner), The genie is out of the bottle, The Glass Ceiling, The iPod of ___insert industry___, the scenery only changes for the lead dog, The take-aways, the way forward, There will be blood., Thinking outside of the box, This moment in time, This thing’s going to happen, Thought Leader, Time to market, Tipping point, Today, more than ever…, Too many chiefs and not enough Indians, touch base, Transparency, Transparent, Trending, under the radar, Under-promise and over-deliver, Underemployed, Up and to the right, Upsell, User-experience, User-Focused, USP, Value-added proposition, viral, Visionary (job title), We Have No Choice…, We’ll Fix It In ‘Post’, We’ll loop you in…, We’ll make sure to revisit this, We’re getting the band back together, Web 2.0, Whatever it takes, When the rubber meets the road, When The Rubber Meets The Road.., Who Moved My Cheese?, win-win, win-win situation, With all due respect, work around, Work Life Balance, World Class, x-Killer (i.e. iPod Killer like the Zune), Ya Think ?, Yes AND no., You are what you are, “You have to “”care”", You have to spend money to make money.
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