Dramatic enough headline for you?  I digress…  Upon reading Lauren’s recent post on industry-specific phrases and their lack of ubiquity across industries, I, as a professional charged with ensuring effective communication for my clients, couldn’t help but take a broader look at the way we generally communicate in our working world.  The more I thought about it, the more I realized that on any given day, in any given work-related situation, chances are you, and I, and everyone we know, regardless of field or position or geography, are probably subjected to the same mind-numbing business buzzwords we’ve been hearing for years.  I, of course, am talking about those clichéd corporate stand-by’s that slyly find their way into our everyday speech, adding nothing to the conversation and increasingly putting our mouths (and, by extension, our brains) on auto-pilot.  So I ask you to indulge me as I discuss (rant about, even) the business buzzwords and catch-phrases most prime to hit the lingo graveyard and what we can do to break the habit of using them.

“Think Outsid