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Taught by Neil Dawson II | Tagged as
opportunity,
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A kind way of saying failure.
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"There are a lot of opportunities with this client. We can add value immediately by accurately recording inventory." - I.E. The client sucks at managing their inventory and we are gonna make some good money fixing it.
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Taught by David | Tagged as
brown bag,
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An informal meeting of questionable value that is held during lunch where you have to bring your own food. An easy way to do nothing while making your manager believe that you are going above and beyond everyone else.
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Why attend that brown bag on the latest technology? Obviously if management deemed it so valuable, they wouldn't make us bring our own food. Oh well, at least on the next performance review I can write down that I participated in it even though I played Solitaire the whole time.
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Taught by Lecturer Rapscallion | Tagged as
deck,
EOD,
leverage,
speak to,
speak-to,
talk to,
talk-to,
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An even more fancy version of talk-to.
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Let's speak-to our ability to leverage stupid sayings in tomorrow's meeting. I need that deck by EOD.
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Taught by TA Ralph Waldo Dick | Tagged as
fake words,
insights,
knowledge,
learning,
learnings,
lessons,
made up words,
marketing speak,
marketing words,
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A term created by marketers/researchers/morons to describe the collective insights gained from a particular campaign or experiment. It's not recognized as a real word but seems to be making some serious rounds throughout the business world.
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James: So in conclusion, after 90 days we have managed to acquire enough learnings to drive the cost to land one customer down almost 34%, sir.
Richard (Dick): Amazing work, Jimbo. How else can we leverage said learnings to create a value-add for the R&D group in El Paso?
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Taught by Bing | Tagged as
initiatives,
move the needle,
prioritization,
shut up,
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Work on projects that have visible impact.
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Going forward, we will revise our prioritization process to insure we energize teams to focus on initiatives that truly move the needle.
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Taught by Amy | Tagged as
bandwidth,
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To have capacity and/or authority to perform a task
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Jim Bob asked me to head the tiger team on that problem because he didn't have the bandwidth to do it himself.
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Taught by Lecturer Rapscallion | Tagged as
synergy,
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a concept that is related to another concept as in "hey ,we ought to put this(idea,thing) together with what we already do; we can probably make more dough on both of them together than either individually."
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I see a developing synergy between this site and my new leadership development business book series.
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Taught by WH | Tagged as
does that make sense?,
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"Does that make sense?" often used by a speaker during a conversation — or a presenter during a presentation — to check whether the listener or audience has understood or appreciated what the speaker has just said.
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We need to change the Laminated TPS report covers, to re-purposed paper covers "Does that make sense"
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Taught by Gwen Watkins | Tagged as
level,
level the playing fields,
playing field,
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A much loved South African political piece of jargon indictaing that we will all start again from scratch.
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Government should level the playing field and no longer restrict South African firms to buying cotton from the Southern African Development Community.
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Taught by brian | Tagged as
revert,
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reply, respond
chiefly used in Singapore and by English speakers in other South East Asian countries who have never looked up the word revert in the dictionary
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Thank you for your e-mail. I'll revert back to you after I've double-confirmed this week's agenda.