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I can't believe I heard this at a meeting last week. What other ludicrous metaphors have you heard this week and beyond in meetings? 
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"owning that decision"
stfu
"The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
"The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de Botton -
What really bugs me is the "at a high level", "at a relatively low level" kind of thing. What on earth do they mean.
Oh, and middle managers taking your excellent analysis and purporting that it was their own.
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light a fire
sabre rattling
getting some traction
management speak is so annoyingWe the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham LincolnComment
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Nose to the grindstone.
"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." -- JFK Inaugural, 1961
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is not a vice." -- Barry Goldwater, 1964 GOP Nomination acceptance speech (not George W. Bush 40 years later...)
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"micro-management"www.my-piano.blogspotComment
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"new paradigm"Comment
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"friction" (to explain loss of profit)www.my-piano.blogspotComment
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"Solutions".Comment
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management speak is so annoying
* shivers *
We must set our noses in the same direction.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God? - EpicurusComment
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I thought to myself, let's look up a few.
So, google --> "manager + speak"
this is the first site.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God? - EpicurusComment
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First I read "getting some action", but then I saw who posted it...Originally posted by Ted Striker
getting some traction
Within weeks they'll be re-opening the shipyards
And notifying the next of kin
Once again...Comment
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I thought of this when I saw the title:
http://www.hardware-wiki.com - A wiki about computers, with focus on Linux support.Comment
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It's funny, I was just thinking about management cliches and overly complicated language. Stuff like "a new paradigm", originated in academic discourse, and I think still has a role to play there, especially if you believe in all that Althusserian stuff about epistemological fractures and so on. I also don't see the problem with "reinventing the wheel". Its a perfectly good term!
I did find this ludicrous piece of language from www.ubu.com a little while ago. It's a site dedicated to concrete poetry, so its inevitably going to be daft and post modern, but this really takes the biscuit:
Opinions?UbuWeb embodies an unstable community, neither vertical nor horizontal but rather a Deleuzian nomadic model: a 4-dimensional space simultaneously expanding and contracting in every direction, growing "rhizomatically" with ever-increasing unpredictability and uncanninessRes ipsa loquiturComment
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Everybody's favorite - "Military Intelligence".
"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." -- JFK Inaugural, 1961
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is not a vice." -- Barry Goldwater, 1964 GOP Nomination acceptance speech (not George W. Bush 40 years later...)
2004 Presidential Candidate
2008 Presidential Candidate (for what its worth)Comment
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