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Re: Q: Overused words and phrases (Long. Very long.)
Subject:Re: Q: Overused words and phrases (Long. Very long.) From:Stan Xhiao <mrlukeplease -at- HOTMAIL -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 12 Oct 1998 04:55:54 PDT
Action item
Actualize
Agents of change
Ball in your court
Ballpark
Bells and whistles
Best practices
Betamaxed
Big picture
Blamestorming
Bleeding edge
Branding
Business units
Capture
Center of Excellence
Challenge (as problem)
Channel
Closure
Comfort level
Committed
Competitive advantage
Contingencies
Core
Core business
Core competencies
Critical
Deliverable
Deployment
Discipline (as noun)
Download
Downsize
Drive
Drives
Empower
End user
Energize
Excellence
Expert system
Facilitate
Failover
Focal
Focus
Fuel/fueling
Fungible
Gatekeeper
Global
Goal oriented
Going forward
Guesstimate
In the loop
Infrastructure
Interface
Issue
Issues (as problem)
Key
Knowledge management
Launch
Levers/leverage
Low-hanging fruit
Mainstream
Manage
Market driven
Metrics
Micromanage
Model
Near-term
No-brainer
On board
Operating model
Opportunity
Opportunity (as problem)
Optimization
Out of the box
Out of the loop
Paradigm shift
Partners/partnership
People skills
Pleased
Plethora
Poised
Position
Premier
Proactive
Process
Proof of concept
Quantify
Raise the bar
Reinvent
Reliant
Restructure
Right-size
Robust
Scale up/down
Scope
Shared values
Shared/sharing
Site-based
Skill set
Spends (n)
Stakeholders
Synergy/synergies
Task oriented
Team player
Tracking
Turnkey
Utilize
Value added
Verbage
Vertical campus (Skyscraper or tall building?I invented this one!)
Vertical/horizontal integration
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