Buzzwords from Yesterday’s Meeting
“That speaks to….”
“Chotchskies” for “tchotchkes”
“Cast a light”
“Diddo” for “ditto”
“Close to the vest”
“Captured audience”
“Agree fully” as a complete sentence (vs. “I agree fully”)
“Take a revisit”
“By the same token”
“Burden of proof”
“Objection handling”
“Where we are hanging our hat”
“Take the playground to a new tier” (my personal favorite)
“Put a stake in the ground”
“Cross-map”
“Shape the fog”
“Ownable”
“Actionable”
“Spitting against the wind”
“Armementarium”
“Lobbing the ball back”
“More legs to it”
“Understand” as a complete sentence (vs. “I understand”)
“Negatively differentiated”
“Garnish” as a verb
“Jumping on the fence” (another mixed metaphor)
“Plethora”
“Going forward”
“Drive home”
“Home in on” (God, I hate that one)
“Entrenched”
“Under the ball” (mixed metaphor No. 3)
“Resonate”
“Caveat”
“Trend downward”
“Stake a claim”
“Paradigm”
“‘N’ of one”
“Suboptimal”
“That’s our entree to the field”
“Kick it up a notch”
“At the end of the day”
“Low-hanging fruit”
“Driving growth”
“Catalyze the influence cascade”
Acronyms included:
OIG
DDMAC
QD
BID
PRN
KOL
MOA
SOV
SDI
PC1
R and 2B
AC
ENT
WP
DCR
ASF
AAOP
ACAAI
AAAAI
CME
I was being facetious. But that really is stupid. Not least because when you paint you don’t paint a background and then try to paint over it; that wouldn’t work at all.
nope,
Blue Skying.
A bunch of listners called in and said “that when start with a blank cavas you first start with a blue sky, then you add everything else. So to “blue sky” an idea is to take the idea back to the very begining and work it up from scratch.”
It just makes me want to slap someone.
Maybe they meant “Vanilla Skying” – where you spend two hours on something you think is meaningful only to find it was all completely pointless.
It’d be more accurate, anyway.
As per O & A yesterday:
Have you ever heard of “Blue Skying” something?
Apparently that’s taking an idea from the ground up but I’d be damned to figure it out.