15 MOST ANNOYING CLICHES
As identified by the Accountemps survey of 150 senior executives

1. At the end of the day
2. Solution
3. Thinking outside the box
4. Synergy
5. Paradigm
6. Metrics
7. Take it offline
8. Redeployed people
9. Core Competency
10. Win-win
11. Value-added
12. Get on the same page
13. Customer-centric
14. Generation X
15. Alignment

 

http://www.cio.com/archive/021505/tl_language.html

 

actually...in my current company, none of them! I'm suddenly impressed.

 

I use alignment everyday.

"your two eyes are in good alignment"

 

lately on the way to work i've been saying "my car needs and alignment"....

 

I can't believe that yeeeeeeeeeeears after the phrase first became popular, people are still saying "think outside the box" - kind of an oxymoron, no?

 

How is "Solution" a cliche?


I agree that most of them are pretty annoying. Thinking outside the box is the ultimate . How many people choose to think inside the box?

At a previous job, a coworker (who was a bit younger than I; we were 18 and 21 and the next youngest person was in his 40s) and I got annoyed with all the meetings that were a total waste of time. We started playing buzzword bingo. Loser usually had to buy lunch. Great way to pass the time.

 

Hehe, I was thinking that, since I use "solution" a lot. As in, "here's your problem, and I've come up with three possible solutions..."

But I guess they mean in the marketing sense of the word, e.g., "IBM has a business solution for you."

 

Oh. That makes more sense.

 

Behind the power curve.