I am convinced I am the man for the job … I just need a little help. I am convinced, with a little training, I can sit down in an hour-long business meeting and talk eloquently and confidently without actually saying anything other than bollocks. Not come up with a single idea. Add absolutely nothing of value yet leave with people thinking I was really ‘in the zone’.
I’m not talking about simply littering my sentences with comments about “low hanging fruit” - I’m talking about real-life weasel words and phrases developed in labs simply to sound impressive and allude to some higher minded thoughts.
The help I need is in mining different industries for their own over-used toss words/phrases … and I need the sentences and context in which they are used. Let’s take it in the form of a dictionary.
plooptionary - weasel words and bullshit phrases fresh from the reeking bowels of consultants. (3 of 100)
Here’s phrase number one:
* “take that for a spin”: The context here is a creative environment with a group of burn out arseholes with little imagination. To cover up for his own lack of ideas, Roger decides to put Mark on the spot during a ‘brainstorm’, “Mark - you mentioned real people … could you take that idea for a spin?”
Ok let’s go …
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