When I was working at Red Hat I was keeping a running list of the extremely lame business-speak catch phrases and words. I did this first as a source of humor and second because I couldn't believe how lame things had gotten around the building with that kind of crap moving in. The problem I had with it was that often these things were used when the person had absolutely no idea what to say, what to do, or how to admit either of those facts. Things like "maximize the pipeline throughput" made me sick. Things like "let's huddle on that" made me laugh.
Since I have been out of the corporate environment (oh thankyou, thankyou, thankyou!!) I have not been able to add to the list. In fact, I don't even know if I have a copy around. This morning however, as I sit eating breakfast at our local food co-op and hit the free Carrboro wireless I am forced to sit beside two folks talking business. I now have a new phrase.
"We need somebody to honcho this thing."
Brilliant.
Update: Since I have been here I have heard these two business associates plan 8 seperate meetings. Eight! If we Americans worked as much as we meet we'd be number one in every industry.