An article by Kathleen Davis at Fast Company on December 12, 2022 titled This is the worst business jargon of 2022 provides a horrible example:
“We need to disrupt this with some thought leadership: I want to empower you to think outside the box, let’s blue sky some ideas beyond the low hanging fruit. We need something that will really move the needle. I want to circle back on those ideas that we double clicked on last week and took offline. I think we had a lot of alignment on the ways to create synergy so now we just need to get boots on the ground so we can leverage it. Who has the bandwidth to start growth hacking?”
Another article by Anna Dobson at Preply on January 3, 2023 titled Business jargon: a survival guide for the office has several tables, four of which are summarized above: ten most and least frequently used, and ten most and least annoying.
A third article by Suzanne Lucas at Inc. on May 9, 2023 titled 50 Most annoying business phrases of 2023 revealed has the fifty shown above in a long list.
And a fourth article by Rob Phillips at Platform Executive, originally on January 28, 2021 and titled The 120 most annoying business phrases and buzzwords of 2022 (updated for 2023) has the even longer list shown above. How many of those words or phrases have you been using?
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