The Top 5 Bullshit Consulting Buzzwords

The Top 5 Bullshit Consulting Buzzwords – Consultants like to use fancy buzzwords and they can be great for communicating a ton of information quickly, but many consulting buzzwords are bullshit. The concepts behind the buzzwords are generally sound but people use them as an excuse to not do the real work. In this video, we will cover some of the top business speak and corporate jargon terms that can damage your organization if used improperly. The business jargon includes BAU (business as usual), empowerment, move the needle, don’t boil the ocean, best practices and we threw in action items for good measure.

This is not a comedy, but Jeremy Webb of Organizational Engineering brings a lighthearted and funny approach in this video to help you improve your business management practices in his quest to help people build high-performance organizations and to bring more wellbeing to the world.

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[kristinamelnichenko]

There has been a huge trend of empowering employees right as we have stopped, believing in the power of expertise. I have had a few new to business and younger managers recently, and they were not at all equipped, or prepared to implement the change management, needed to make IT driven pivots. I sure was empowered, but without authority lol.

[OrganizationalEngineering]

I hope you enjoyed this video and got some value. Are there any buzzwords that rub you the wrong way?

[Koh-Learn]

"Let's touch base". Makes me shudder every time I hear it

[aholguin]

I've never heard "don't boil the ocean" used to avoid doing hard work. In my experience in consulting it's a term used to tell over-enthusiastic business analysts you don't need to rewrite the laws of physics & calculus to explain why you don't sell ice in Antarctica...

[kristinamelnichenko]

“Radical”. Radical candor, radical ownership… we’ve all become so disingenuous with our words that we have to use radical, instead of just saying some thing.

[ashleeberghoff]

Nice work! Happy to be a new subscriber

[jjsc]

They are not "useful". If consulting, it is VERY dangerous to drop buzzwords with clients as they can be absolutely HATED, and they'll write you off as a blubbering tool in a nanosecond.

[MrBemma]

"gold standard" -- How does one achieve this lofty outcome and how is it measured?

[chrisw]

Teamwork. Something that should be a given, I see it brought out rather than address poor performers of single favorite employees. Somehow I ended up on the receiving end of it rather then coworkers that were negkigent in thipeir duties or even abusive to others. Guess I was expected to cover for them as part of the team.