A couple of my favorites:
Read the rest in the Forbes article. (Thanks, Jamie!)
This is 21 Blue Jaguars #1,500 post over the past 6 years!
- It’s a paradigm shift = I don’t know what’s going on in our business. But we’re not making as much money as we used to.
- I’m a team player/we only hire team players = I hope everyone on the team thinks this is a meritocracy, even though I’m the dictator in charge
- Let’s circle back to that/Let’s put that in the parking lot/let’s touch base on that later/let’s take this off-line = Shut up and let’s go back to what I was talking about
- We need to manage the optics of this = How can we lie about this in a way people will believe?
- That’s not our core competency/we’re sticking to our knitting = We’re just glad we’re making money in one business, because we’d have no clue how to get into any other business
- It’s the old 80-20 rule = I really have no idea what the rule was, but I just want to focus on the things that will make us successful
Read the rest in the Forbes article. (Thanks, Jamie!)
This is 21 Blue Jaguars #1,500 post over the past 6 years!
