Corporate Cliches (work, benefits, office, management)

[heavyweight]

Originally Posted by hereinfla

EXIT INTERVIEW

Mine is 2pm tomorrow!!!!!

Not knowing if this is an exit meeting due to "rightsizing" or your exploring other options, I'm going to say...congratulations, hereinfla!

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On the same page

Going Forward

Cirlce back / Close the loop

Mission Critical

vision

integrity

strategy

deliverables

metrics

(Sigh) These make me want to puke a little.

[mainebrokerman]

Originally Posted by hereinfla

smell test

smell test???????????

what does this apply to? oral interviews?

[Magnolia Bloom]

I have posted "the rest of the story" on a separate thread- The Exit Interview" so as not to hijack this very funny thread.

Originally Posted by callsnap

Not knowing if this is an exit meeting due to "rightsizing" or your exploring other options, I'm going to say...congratulations, hereinfla!

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On the same page

Going Forward

Cirlce back / Close the loop

Mission Critical

vision

integrity

strategy

deliverables

metrics

(Sigh) These make me want to puke a little.

[Hoosier]

I think the smell test is where you want to put either a bar of soap on a co-worker/bosses desk to give him the hint he has B/O. OR a box of breathmints due to that very bad breath!

[dukester2]

'Flying under the radar'
'Let's get our arms around this'
'parking lot'

Too many meetings!! I have been thinking about starting a commitee to abolish meetings. We will meet 5 days a week from 11-1, (brown-bag lunch meetings). We will have committees, co-committee's, chairperson, (me), co-chairperson, timekeeper, scribe, and if we have anyone left over, they can do all the action items.

Oh, I forgot...I think there should be more acronyms for all companies too. After my previous meeting gets off the ground, I will start another weekly meeting from 1-3 called 'WNMAITP' (We need more acronyms in this place).

[mainebrokerman]

skill-set
embrace change
comfort zone(s)
comfort level
image building
growth inhibitors
profit-centers
market-conditions
market-accelerators
market-strategies
competitive-advantage
exhaust all possibilities
market-volitility
growth-strategy
growth-compass
vision
cost/benefit
market analysis
market vulnerability
market absorption
market-saturation levels

[Crew Chief]

Say, whatever happened to "Management by Objective" and "Total Quality Management"??? That's all I heard in the Air Force back in the early 90's...

[dukester2]

Originally Posted by Crew Chief

Say, whatever happened to "Management by Objective" and "Total Quality Management"??? That's all I heard in the Air Force back in the early 90's...

Ah, good ole TQM, I had forgotten about that one.

A couple others:

'Benchmarking'
'Tail wagging the dog'

[Magnolia Bloom]

management by walking around
seek first to understand

and how have we gotten this far on this thread without seeing:

best bang for the buck!

[Hoosier]

Top down management style