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SiD

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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #25 on: 04 July, 2011, 10:45:48 pm »
"I'll be wearing a very broad-brimmed hat today… and will be speaking both horizontally… and vertically".

This is the one that has stayed with me for the past 10 years, nothing's come close.

tonycollinet

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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #26 on: 04 July, 2011, 10:57:02 pm »
De-scope is one we use quite a lot.
+1. I'm not keen on buzz-words but cross-functional seems OK to me too - a team made up of people from different functions (departments/whatever) in the organisation.

Oh right! well that's not what I think he meant by it - from his explanation when I picked him up on it, it appeared to allude to the ability for us all to pitch in with each other's responsibilities.
Or, more precisely, the implied expectation for us others to pitch in with his. (Or even more precisely, the tasks that he was taken on to do, but hasn't done any of.)

You may be right, though - but that's the thing though, you just don't know - it means whatever the person using it wants it to mean, or in the case where they're just using it to sound like they know what they're talking about, nothing.

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He's misunderstood its use - is using it to sound good. All the gear, no idea springs to mind.

David Martin

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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #27 on: 04 July, 2011, 11:25:54 pm »
"I'll be wearing a very broad-brimmed hat today… and will be speaking both horizontally… and vertically".

This is the one that has stayed with me for the past 10 years, nothing's come close.
Sounds ike the mother in law drinking too much at a wedding.

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TheLurker

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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #28 on: 05 July, 2011, 08:38:59 am »
You're all sadists. 

Every last one of you.

I have been successfully blanking out our impending company day (tomorrow) which will require sitting through god knows how many hours of stultifyingly boring powerpoint pictures and accompanying managerial willy-waving and this thread has just given me the screaming horrors in advance.   

Gits.
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David Martin

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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #29 on: 05 July, 2011, 09:54:05 am »
Buzzword bingo?
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Jaded

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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #30 on: 05 July, 2011, 10:18:53 am »
You have to be the bridge and master the art of the elevator speech if you want your flagpole saluted.
It is simpler than it looks.

David Martin

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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #31 on: 05 July, 2011, 10:32:55 am »
You need to proactively engage with the dialectic of the customer base in order to leverage your core comptencies going forward. This necessitates appropriate revenue streams from monetizing your contributions in a goal focussed approach to delivery.

Or in other words, you need to ask them to give you a job and pay you apropriately.
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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #32 on: 05 July, 2011, 11:11:15 am »
You need to proactively engage with the dialectic of the customer base in order to leverage your core comptencies going forward. This necessitates appropriate revenue streams from monetizing your contributions in a goal focussed approach to delivery.

Or in other words, you need to ask them to give you a job and pay you apropriately.

Slickly done. You're obviously a master at this sort of thing.
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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #33 on: 05 July, 2011, 11:20:16 am »
"I'll be wearing a very broad-brimmed hat today… and will be speaking both horizontally… and vertically".

This is the one that has stayed with me for the past 10 years, nothing's come close.
And then they wonder why potential foreign clients don't call back.  :facepalm:
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Morrisette

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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #34 on: 06 July, 2011, 11:15:21 am »
PMSL at 'bio-break'.

The one that really winds me up is 'going forwards'. As in, 'we'll be working on this report going forward and....' WHY?!
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clarion

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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #35 on: 06 July, 2011, 11:19:30 am »
Well, you wouldn't want them to be going backwards, would you?  Very reassuring, I'd say ;)
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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #36 on: 06 July, 2011, 11:30:31 am »
As proved by those hothouses of UK intellectual elite, Oxford and Cambridge, it is best to have the cocks in the back and everyone else going backwards.
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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #37 on: 06 July, 2011, 08:53:28 pm »
Clearly there is huge pent up demand here for a Neuro Linguistic Planning course.
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Regulator

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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #38 on: 07 July, 2011, 11:17:11 pm »
You ain't seen nothing if you haven't worked in the NHS...  :sick:

The current reforms, combined with the QIPP agenda, are creating a whole new level of insane management speak that even the acolytes are finding is making their brains dribble out of their ears.  :-X

David Nicholson is a Bullshit Bingo player's wet dream... :facepalm:
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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #39 on: 08 July, 2011, 10:16:41 am »
You ain't seen nothing if you haven't worked in the NHS...  :sick:

The current reforms, combined with the QIPP agenda, are creating a whole new level of insane management speak that even the acolytes are finding is making their brains dribble out of their ears.  :-X

David Nicholson is a Bullshit Bingo player's wet dream... :facepalm:
I'll see your NHS and raise you one MOD :sick: :sick: ??? :sick: :o :sick: :sick: :hand: :sick: :facepalm: >:(
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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #40 on: 08 July, 2011, 11:35:36 am »
Try a USAnian company.  I couldn't understand a single question on my appraisal form and that was circa 1992.
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Regulator

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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #41 on: 08 July, 2011, 11:50:46 am »
You ain't seen nothing if you haven't worked in the NHS...  :sick:

The current reforms, combined with the QIPP agenda, are creating a whole new level of insane management speak that even the acolytes are finding is making their brains dribble out of their ears.  :-X

David Nicholson is a Bullshit Bingo player's wet dream... :facepalm:
I'll see your NHS and raise you one MOD :sick: :sick: ??? :sick: :o :sick: :sick: :hand: :sick: :facepalm: >:(

I've been working closely with the MoD over the last year.  You may love your acronyms and have a complete inability to make a decision without it going to the top - but you're babies compared to the NHS when it comes to insance management speak.

Give it another couple of years and you may catch up.   :facepalm:
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clarion

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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #42 on: 08 July, 2011, 11:52:48 am »
No chance.  The Modernisation Agency was the spawning ground of a whole herd of boloxtalkers, but the Commissioning Board is shaping up to provide a new wave.
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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #43 on: 08 July, 2011, 12:45:03 pm »
My management have recently started using the word firedrill,  as an example:

"We need to have the replies by COB tomorrow, apologies again for the urgent firedrill."

Which amuses me,  as in a firedrill I leave whatever I am doing and stand in the park for half an hour.
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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #44 on: 09 July, 2011, 12:19:33 am »
My company's management (though I suspect US HR) is urging us "as leaders to touch the business every day". Sounds a bit icky to me.
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Jaded

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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #45 on: 13 July, 2011, 01:05:17 am »
It is the natural progression after touching cloth.
It is simpler than it looks.

Rig of Jarkness

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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #46 on: 29 July, 2011, 07:24:08 am »
"Gaining traction" is currently popular in our salt mines. 

It's funny how these phrases appear out of nowhere and then suddenly everyone is using them.  I now get asked on a regular basis 'And are you getting the right traction on that ?'

The worst moment always comes when you hear yourself saying the same phrase, the one you've promised yourself not to use.  Oh well, it happens to us all...
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Jacomus

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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #47 on: 29 July, 2011, 08:56:46 am »
"Gaining traction" is currently popular in our salt mines. 

It's funny how these phrases appear out of nowhere and then suddenly everyone is using them.  I now get asked on a regular basis 'And are you getting the right traction on that ?'

The worst moment always comes when you hear yourself saying the same phrase, the one you've promised yourself not to use.  Oh well, it happens to us all...

So very true!

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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #48 on: 29 July, 2011, 09:39:17 am »
I work for the UK part of a(n increasingly) global firm, and our US colleagues never email us or ring us, they always "Reach out" to us.....


Arrrrrrrggghhhhhh. No you're not, you're emailing/ calling me .... and breathe...
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clarion

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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #49 on: 29 July, 2011, 10:12:48 am »
Four Tops fans?
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