Corporate Lingo Daily Content Archive
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- Keep the lights on. Count the hours.
- Rabbit hole. Fourteen questions deep.
- Peel the onion. Four layers, no middle.
- Circle the wagons. Six cuts, one sent.
- Silo. Four records, no door.
- Silver bullet. One shot, six problems.
- Table this. Six items, no return date.
- Shift left. Six arrows, no destination.
- Granularity. One number, no floor.
- Fire drill. Eight hours, no fire.
- Fail fast. Five pilots, one stop.
- All hands on deck. Twelve hands, one job.
- Elephant in the room. Day 40, no line.
- Bus factor. Six systems, one name each.
- Bike-shedding. £10m in 2.5 minutes.
- Blast radius. The answer was 'small'.
- Paradigm shift. Four numbers, new order.
- Back of the envelope. It became a date.
- Lean in. Only the angle moved.
- EOD. Whose end of day?
- Net-net. Nothing was netted.
- Punch above your weight. 40 against 400.
- Sacred cow. £230k, never reviewed.
- Wheelhouse. 10 of 15 asks had no name.
- Moving parts. Counted: 5. Owned: 0.
- Technical debt. 283 hours in interest.
- Touchpoint. 10 minutes of work per second.
- Walk the talk. 53 mentions. 1 walk.
- Definition of done. 36 of 60 checks run.
- Per my last email. 46 words became 4.
- Air cover. 9 grants, 0 from level 4.
- Headcount. 12 seats, 7 people.
- No-brainer. 46 hours, back in month 8.
- Crawl, walk, run. Walk lasted 3 days.
- Edge case. It arrives 18 days out of 22.
- Rubber stamp. 73 seconds a paper.
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