I get annoyed by thoughtless and uncreative use of certain overused terms/statements in corporate settings. Below are some that are so annoying, they distract me from the conversation. What are some that annoy you?
Peel back the layers of an onion
Incentivize
Let's table that so we can circle back to it later
We'll out that on the backburner
Let's not reinvent the wheel
They just started a new project, so their plate's full and might not have the bandwidth for an additional something else.
Grab the low-hanging fruit
That's a game changer
The ball's in their court. If you don't hear from them soon, send them an email to touch base.
I sent it up the food chain, so it's out of my hands.
Let's give it 110%
There are lots of moving parts
We need to have an aha moment
At the end of the day, what matters are the key takeaways
Let's engage in the best practices
They're working on it as we speak
It's a controversial approach, so we might get some flak for that.
I loathe each and every one of those, except "swim-lanes" which I can accept only because I hear it used when talking about actual flowchart swim-lanes (which is still a better term than "rows that represent different roles or actors within a given work process").