Those annoying business cliches that people use when they have no idea what they are talking about! I went to a sales meeting in May and from a single presentation, here is what I heard:
“moving the needle”
“move this product through the gates”
“we have sharpened our pencils”
“we have to execute on all levels”
“we have pockets of success”
“we will use this as kind of an eye chart” - I don’t even know what that means!
“demographic or age buckets”
“forward thinking”
“penetrate the distribution and maximize the market”
“sell at the margin-enhanced price”
“the big uptick will be in….”
“everyone needs to be fully sampled”
“this is just a snapshot”
“look at the competive landscape”
“look at the metrics and incentivize…”
“sell the hot bag” - ????!!!!!
“gaining traction”
“going forward”
“as per…”
and my all-time stomach turning, “peeling the onion”
This is from one person during one presentation! Once he started speaking, I completely disregarded the purpose of the presentation and began copying everything down. My hands hurt.
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