Well, time for a little self-assessment. Yesterday the BBC put up a great little piece about all those cringe-worthy little sayings that somehow get passed off as legitimate business terms.  They even made a nice little card so you can all play "buzzword" bingo at your leisure

So dare you take the bullshit challenge?

Come on, how many of these sayings do you actually catch yourself coming out with? Count them up and be honest

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1. Idea showers
2. Product evangelist/platform atheist
3. Incentivise
4. Let's touch base off-line
5. Loop back
6. You can't turn round a tanker with a speed boat change (???)
7. You're on my radar
8. Let's look under the bonnet (in a non-automotive context)
9. Let's sprinkle our magic
10. In this space
11. From the get-go
12. Don't let the grass grow too long on this
13. My door is open on this issue
14. Not enough bandwidth (in a non-internet context)
15. Capture your colleagues
16. Paradigm shift
17. Granualiarity (meaning detail, apparently)
18. Living our values
19. Strategic staircase (Oh God!)
20. In negative territory
21. High altitude view
22. We're on the wrong side of this demographic
23. Eating your own dog food (don't ask)
24. Soup to nuts (meaning a total beginning-to-end solution, apparently)
25. Drinking the kool-aid (get my gun)

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Scoring system

0-5 - You're hired!
6-10 - You're fired!!!
more than 10 - You're my old boss. Get the hell off my blog before I take out an ASBO on your ass

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