While I was on hols the IAB published survey findings into which was the most unpopular bit of boardroom jargon.
By far the most irritating was found to be “blue sky thinking”!
The top 10 are featured below and I must admit I’d never heard number 5 and 10 which are truly, truly awful!
1. Blue sky thinking
2. Singing from the same hymn sheet
3. Thinking outside the box
4. Touching base
5. Run it up the flagpole and see who salutes
6. End to end solution
7. We must reach out
8. Evolution NOT revolution
9. All on the same page
10. Team work makes the dream work
After nearly 4 years at Microsoft I have picked a few bad habits, and now find myself always trying to find “synergies”, wondering what things “might look like”, trying to “add value” and “shooting from the hip!”
Working at Harrods many years ago, a director used to say: “Remember retail is detail and eye-level is buy-level!”
Gonna be sick.........
