The Business Buzzword Dictionary, for all your boardroom meetings…cause if you ain’t using a “Synergy,” you ain’t doing it right:
Cascade: Mountains in the Northwest. Or things following other things.
Contra: Accountants use this to confuse others. It just means against something else.
First Pancake: You know how that first pancake is typically a do’over. Same thing in that first try or initial rollout.
Macro: Large
Micro: Small
MultiZoomTasking: Doing other things while on Zoom.
Nuggets: Morsels of something good, like best practices, advice, or pieces of wisdom. Or, clues about future intent (as my team says I do).
Nugs: When you want to say “nuggets” faster; or smaller morsels.
Parking Lot: Like the table, something for later, but this time you’re parking it.
Smells like Bacon: Translation, “Yup, I think you’re on to something…”
Smells like Kind Bars: Same as above, but for those who don’t eat bacon.
Socialize: Talk about stuff with other people…probably get some opinions you may or may not want.
Spot Treating: Fixing an isolated issue. Also for carpet cleaning where your dog pees, versus cleaning the whole living room.
Strategery: A better way of saying strategy, thank you GW!
Synergize: A verb, to form synergy…. “To synergize…”
Synergy: 1+1 = 3. Last I checked, it equals 2… but I’m with ya! Let’s get more out of less. Plus, if that’s not said in a meeting, you ain’t doing it right…
Table it: To put on a proverbial table…for later.
Value Proposition: Something fancy managers tell others they should have..
Vision: To see something. Leaders use this to tell others what they see.
Waterfall: Pretty sure that’s like cascade, but more of start at the top and work down…