Boil the Ocean: You can’t boil the ocean. To boil the ocean is a waste of time. Since not everybody knows it, don’t force anyone to try to figure out something impossible.
The way knowledge moves to the people act as a key factor for their behavioral changes. Grasping knowledge and making use out of it extremely depends on how it’s being served on your plate. If you are surrounded with the right information but confined with the wrong way of delivery of it, your life can turn into misery.
Similarly, in the corporate world business writings are way formal and untouched by casual words. Casual or informal words or phrases are allowed to float in blogs, personal writings, or articles for some time. Business writing is strictly built on direct and short sentence structures where people find it hard to make informal interaction. The interaction makes people relaxed and easy to understand the language(writing).
Fortunately, we are here to witness a list of jargon combined with words and phrases that are confusing but somehow creative to be a friendlier and more effective way to understand any business. The list also follows some do’s and don’ts to guide professionals. However, employees can use them while conversing with colleagues.
Aha moment: When you discovered something that can be vital for your business.
At the end of the day: Try to make all good at the end of the day.
Baked In: When a given fact or possibility is cooked inside the business’s oven to eat.
Balls in the air: When your colleague asks you out but you are busy enough or have several projects to get rid off/finish.
Bandwidth: When you don’t have time/bandwidth but still have some left to handle a situation.
Bells & whistles: Proposal being offered for advantages of future happenings.
Best of breed: When you find yourself unique among homogenous people around you.
Big bang for the buck: When you’re too much talking sleazy colleague try to convince you saying that the product/service exceptionally have a high value.
Bleeding edge: Technologies are so new that they have a high risk of being reliable and lead adopters to experience great expense in order to use them.
Boil the Ocean: You can’t boil the ocean. To boil the ocean is a waste of time. Since not everybody knows it, don’t force anyone to try to figure out something impossible.
Brick and mortar: In business, when you fill the mistake/gap in the given time(mortar) to bind the separated workforce.
Bring to the table: When you were offered a new work and you’re enthusiastic to handle that.
Champion (as a verb): When you’re focused and sharp as a spearhead to enter the business’s head.
Contrarian: You cannot act against business’s protocol or you’re against all.
Core competencies: When you ensure your clients about business policy. A fancy way of saying we’re good at this.
Corporate culture: Every workspace requires a culture or an environment to maintain dignity. It’s more realistic when any small business overreach claiming to have a culture.
Deep dive: When you fall for any business-related query and try to analyze and explore.
Ducks in a row: When you find yourself in a row full of stupids and stupidity comes when you say we’re ready or organized.
Empower: In the business world empowering someone by assigning responsibility.
Evolve: Hard work develops a relationship and helps to strengthen in complexity.
Frictionless: Friction has to do with change, and what type of business change has ever occurred without friction? Change is a necessity and exaggerating to business.
Give 110%: It’s not an irony rather ensuring everything is sufficient.
Good to go: When you use a slangy way to say you’re ready.
Granular: Grains are smalls and need attention to count. Businesses should provide a granular look to customers.
Guesstimate: When your company provides a rough estimate/partial estimation.
Guru: When your colleagues have doubts they may find you as a guru if you’re smart enough. But don’t call yourself a guru because in the same environment people may not easily be convinced. Instead, you can say you’re an expert.
Herding cats: The attempt to manage difficult and/or disagreeable individuals together. Handling heterogeneous people is a nut-chewing job. Be aware of using cats as your customers or you may face opposition.
Holistic: The idea that a business system acts as a whole and not just a collection of parts. For example — Healthcare cures the entire body and mind, not just body parts.
Human capital: A sin to call instead of calling employees, laborers, workforces, crews, or staffs.
Ideation: To ideate(radiate) is to bring ideas or concepts and influences around.
In light of the fact that: Putting light into something means trying to explain something or better ‘In light’ can be replaced with because.
Jumped the shark: When your business was in its prime to be economically strong but facing crisis and you still trying to hold the straw.
Laser focus: When companies get tired of using a regular laser, they need to withdraw their big guns to make employees focused.
Lipstick on a pig: When you try to cure your ill-business with bad efforts. You’re putting lipstick on a pig.
Low hanging fruits: You’re allowed to do the easiest work first that brings clarity to future endeavors.
Make hay while the sun shines: Make the most of the opportunity.
Move the needle: This means getting a meaningful or measurable result with little needle deviation.
Offline: Why don’t you discuss this in private.
One throat to choke: Not a formal phrase. It means you’re the only one left your clients to need to go for answers.
On the same page: Easy way to say ‘we agree’.
Open the kimono: Kimono allows only 5% of your business body parts to reveal. Opening it means your business holds transparency and may make you more reliable.
Outside the box: Ironically, you don’t have any creative idea instead of just talking about some creative shit and imaginary things.
Pain point: Can be replaced with any kind of pain/problem that occurs in business.
Pencil in: It says you penciled me in, states scheduling in an improper way/lacks confidence.
Preplan or prescheduled: Not a defined idea of what will be the plan(not sure of what). It’s better you do pre-planning before planning something good.
Price point: In businesses, the price is all we need.
Proactive: It means taking control and making things happen, predicting and reacting to the future situation rather than adjusting to the current scenario.
Push the envelope: It’s not favoring the decision-making instant act before analyzing. This could be the act done aggressively. Think about what you mean exactly, and then describe it.
Raise the bar: This means to set higher standards, often considered good enough.
Rationalization: When someone is referred to be harsh after hitting with unpleasant acts.
Reinvent the wheel: When employees maintained to reinvent which is already exists in the finished form. Like, silicons for chipset making but that already exists as waste.
Resonate: When something resonates/radiates, it reaches people emotionally or the way they can relate to. Otherway-people will relate to this or move by the idea.
Secret sauce: Something crucial that you do but your competitors cannot. A supremely important concept for business upliftment.
Strike while the iron is hot: In the business world, marketers hit on the right opportunity to get maximum output.
Synergy: When things synergize, they combine to have a greater impact than they can achieve on their own. Synergy is a useful business concept.
Unpack: To unpack an idea is to examine it in detail.
Value-added: The time has come to point out product and service benefits.
Win-Win: Theoretically, it’s a game where both parties win. It may be possible by an agreement or under marketing policies.
Zero-sum game: The opposite of win-win. Pure combat of a game where one wins and the other loses.
Usually, what we write for the business world is meant to influence the mass audience. However, many businesses use jargon and metaphorical phrases for their in-house publication writings. Writings like journals, business letters/articles, and other in-house magazines come under business protocols to make the employees/staff aware of business rules and updated with every change that occurs time-to-time.
