Business Cliches

I’ve been working my way through some of the common business cliches I hear at work, generally publishing a new one each Friday. I research the term and the origins, and sometimes I create images to demonstrate the concept. The list of terms to come is on the right – but feel free to add a comment if you’d like to suggest a new term, or a resource you like. If you like these posts you’ll probably enjoy playing Bullshit Bingo, and you may enjoy generating some radically new Web phrases.

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80-20 Rule Across the board Barriers to Entry Best in Breed from @mirverburg Cascading Information Critical Path Cutting Edge Eat your own dog food First Mover Advantage Long Tail Low Hanging fruit Milestone Pandora’s box Paradigm shift Pushing the Envelope Reverse Engineer Thinking outside the box win-win situation	A-B TestingBest Practices brain dump Drill down Drinking the Kool-Aid Elephant in the room Giving 110% Helicopter view Let’s take this off-line Maximise leverage Mission critical Touch base Throw it against the wall and see what sticks Throw someone under the bus Sweat Equity Synergy Value-added proposition

Available

Coming soon

80-20 Rule Across the board

Barriers to Entry

Best in Breed from @mirverburg

Cascading Information

Critical Path

Cutting Edge

Eat your own dog food

First Mover Advantage

Long Tail

Low Hanging fruit