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Posted By: Joann

hahaha Chad. Great great choice of words. Reminds me of playing Buzzword Bingo in meetings at work. Lay out your card with the corporate lingo of the day, and listen while you and someone else try for the first bingo. Hee.

Good words for my company:

Margin hit
Reach out
Circle back (although this one has gone dormant)
Utilize (only allowed when "use" would work perfectly well - drives me nuts)
Communicate (as above, only for when "tell" would have worked)
"The Business" (as used by the IT folks when explaining what everyone else has to do because the software can't)
At the end of the day
That said or Having said that
Blocking and tackling (when the speaker means we have to get back to basics)

And of course, the center square: Going forward. At my brother's company, for awhile he took vis-a-vis as his center square and cleaned up while that was the latest "in" phrase.

Sorry for the OT - but Chad's awesome post reminded me of this.

Joann