Business meetings might not be as
fancy as the power suits of the attendees. They involve a lot of multi-tasking
between grasping the colorful chevrons dancing on screen, deciphering graphs,
crunching numbers, and above all
understanding/delivering a story that can bring us close to a decision. Amid
all this chaos, imagine a clown pops into the room, juggling balls on a
unicycle. How’s that for a distraction? Well, sometimes we don’t need a clown.
Overused corporate jargons do that task.
Unfortunately or not, in a company,
jargons spread like an epidemic. They mix into our vocabulary like salt in
water, and before we know it, we are already using it our official and even
informal conversations. In fact, sometimes people use them deliberately to pass
as professionals. These jargons might sound smart at times, and some of them
are even too harmless to notice. While others are more like speed breakers in a
formula one race track, unnecessary and fatal to a conversation.
Here’s a list of 12 weirdest
jargons that I have come across in conversations and articles:
