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| x Euphemism |
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A euphemism is a substitution of an agreeable or less offensive expression in place of one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant to the listener, or to make it less troublesome for the speaker, as in the case of doublespeak. The deployment...
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| x Home run |
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In baseball, a home run (abbreviated HR) is scored when the ball is hit in such a way that the batter is able to circle all the bases, ending at home plate and scoring runs for himself and each runner who was already on base, with no errors by the...
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| x Nature |
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Nature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural world, physical world, or material world. "Nature" refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. It ranges in scale from the subatomic to the cosmic.
The word...
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| x Paradigm shift |
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Paradigm shift (or revolutionary science) is the term first used by Thomas Kuhn in his influential book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) to describe a change in basic assumptions within the ruling theory of science. It is in contrast...
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| x Renewable energy |
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Renewable energy is energy generated from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat, which are renewable (naturally replenished). In 2006, about 18% of global final energy consumption came from renewables, with 13%...
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| x Verb |
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In syntax, a verb is a word (part of speech) that usually denotes an action (bring, read), an occurrence (decompose, glitter), or a state of being (exist, stand). Depending on the language, a verb may vary in form according to many factors, possibly...
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| x Noun |
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In linguistics, a noun is a member of a large, open lexical category whose members can occur as the main word in the subject of a clause, the object of a verb, or the object of a preposition.
Lexical categories are defined in terms of how their...
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| x Adjective |
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In grammar, an adjective is a word whose main syntactic role is to modify a noun or pronoun, giving more information about the noun or pronoun's referent. Collectively, adjectives form one of the traditional English eight parts of speech, though...
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| x Adverb |
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An adverb is a part of speech. It is any word that modifies any other part of language, except for nouns: verbs, adjectives (including numbers), clauses, sentences and other adverbs. Modifiers of nouns are primarily determiners and adjectives....
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| x Human Resources |
Human resources is a term used to refer to how people are managed by organizations. The field has moved from a traditionally administrative function to a strategic one that recognizes the link between talented and engaged people and organizational...
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| x Alliteration |
Alliteration is a literary or rhetorical stylistic device that consists in repeating the same consonant sound at the beginning of several words in close succession. An example is the Mother Goose tongue-twister, "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled...
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| x Slam dunk |
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A slam dunk (or simply a dunk) is a type of basketball shot that is performed when a player jumps in the air and manually powers the ball downward through the basket with one or both hands over the rim. This is considered a normal field goal attempt...
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| x Six Sigma |
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Six Sigma is a business management strategy originally developed by Motorola. As of 2009, it enjoys widespread application in many sectors of industry, although its application is not without controversy.
Six Sigma seeks to improve the quality of...
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| x Core competency |
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A core competency is a specific factor that a business sees as being central to the way it, or its employees work. It fulfils three key criteria:
A core competency can take various forms, including technical/subject matter know-how, a reliable...
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| x Trial balloon |
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Information sent out in order to observe the reaction of an audience: "We announce we were releasing an updated model of our XM-5 Jackhammer next year as a trial balloon to see if there was any interest from our customers."
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| x Viral marketing |
The buzzwords viral marketing and viral advertising refer to marketing techniques that use pre-existing social networks to produce increases in brand awareness or to achieve other marketing objectives (such as product sales) through self-replicating...
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| x Barriers to entry |
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In economics and mostly especially in the theory of competition, barriers to entry are obstacles in the path of a firm that make it difficult to enter a given market.
Barriers to entry are the source of a firm's pricing power - the ability of a firm...
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| x Loss leader |
A loss leader or leader is a product sold at a low price (at cost or below cost) to stimulate other, profitable sales. It is a kind of sales promotion, in other words marketing concentrating on a pricing strategy. The price can even be so low that...
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| x Eat one's own dog food |
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Eating one's own dog food, also called dogfooding, means that a company uses the products that it makes. Dogfooding can be a way for a company to demonstrate confidence in its own products, and hence a kind of testimonial advertising.For example,...
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| x Best practice |
A Best practice is a technique, method, process, activity, incentive or reward that is believed to be more effective at delivering a particular outcome than any other technique, method, process, etc. The idea is that with proper processes, checks,...
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| x Run it up the flagpole |
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"Let's run it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes it" is a catchphrase which became popular in the United States during the late 1950s and early 1960s. It means "to present an idea tentatively and see whether it receives a favorable reaction."...
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| x Meeting of the minds |
Meeting of the minds (also referred to as mutual assent or consensus ad idem) is a phrase in contract law used to describe the intentions of the parties forming the contract. In particular it refers to the situation where there is a common...
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| x Value added |
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In economics, the difference between cost of materials and labor to produce a product, and the sale price of a product is the value added. In national accounts used in macroeconomics, it refers to the contribution of the factors of production, i.e.,...
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| x Leverage |
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Using resources in such a way that the potential positive effect is magnified.
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| x Thought leader |
For the South African news website, see Thought Leader
Thought leader is a buzzword or article of jargon used to describe a futurist or person who is recognized among peers and mentors for innovative ideas and demonstrates the confidence to promote...
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| x Profit center |
Profit centers are parts of a corporation that directly add to its profit.
A profit center manager is held accountable for both revenues, and costs (expenses), and therefore, profits. What this means in terms of managerial responsibilities is that...
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| x First-mover advantage |
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First-mover advantage or FMA is the advantage gained by the initial occupant of a market segment. This advantage may stem from the fact that the first entrant can gain control of resources that followers may not be able to match. Sometimes the first...
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| x Raise the bar |
The popular expression "Raise the Bar" is used in the same context as the term New standard, which means to do a better job of something than someone else.
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| x Buying in |
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Buying in has several meanings:
On the English stock exchange, a transaction by which, if a member has sold securities which he fails to deliver on settling day, or any of the succeeding ten days following the settlement, the buyer may give...
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| x Proactive |
The use of the word proactive, sometimes also written pro-active was limited to the domain of experimental psychology in the 1930s. Oxford English Dictionary (OED) credits Paul Whiteley and Gerald Blankfort, citing their 1933 paper discussing...
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| x The Way Forward |
Ford Motor Company's restructuring plan, made public in 2006, is known as The Way Forward.
Ford is attempting to reduce fixed capital costs while maintaining a special focus on cars and car-based crossover vehicles. Over time, it hopes to make more...
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| x Think outside the box |
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Thinking outside the box is to think differently, unconventionally or from a new perspective. This phrase often refers to novel, creative and smart thinking.
This is sometimes called a process of lateral thought. The catchphrase, or cliché, has...
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| x Action item |
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In Management, an action item is a documented event, task, activity, or action that needs to take place. Action items are discrete units that can be handled by a single person.
Action items are usually created during a discussion by a group of...
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| x Hit it out of the park |
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| x Bricks and clicks |
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Bricks-and-clicks is a business model by which a company integrates both offline (bricks) and online (clicks) presences. It is also known as click-and-mortar or clicks-and-bricks, as well as bricks, clicks and flips, flips referring to catalogs. One...
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| x High Touch |
High Touch is a term coined by John Naisbitt, from the second chapter in his book "Megatrends". This terms refers to having to deal with or interact with a human being as opposed to having to deal with computers (i.e. High Tech) and that High Touch...
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| x Mission critical |
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The term mission critical (or mission-critical) refers to any factor (equipment, process, procedure, software, etc.) which is crucial to the successful completion of an entire project. It may also refer to a project the success of which is vital to...
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| x Customer engagement |
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Customer engagement (CE) refers to the engagement of customers with one another, with a company or a brand. The initiative for engagement can be either consumer- or company-led and the medium of engagement can be on or offline.
Unlike marketing...
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| x Onboarding |
Onboarding is the process of acquiring, accommodating, assimilating and accelerating new team members, whether they come from outside or inside the organization. The prerequisite to successful onboarding is getting your organization aligned around...
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| x Synergism |
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Synergism, in general, may be defined as two or more agents working together to produce a result not obtainable by any of the agents independently. The word synergy or synergism comes from two Greek words: erg meaning "to work", and syn meaning ...
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| x Cutting edge |
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A new, usually untested technology or process with the promise of better performance than existing options: "Jim's using some cutting edge macros in his spreadsheet."
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| x Low hanging fruit |
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The easiest thing to be accomplished. As in "pick the low hanging fruit from the tree first."
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| x Open kimono |
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Reveal internal business secrets to a trusted party, as in "We went open kimono with our potential investors."
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| x Out of pocket |
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To be inaccessible: "I'm going to be out of pocket for the next week while playing golf with my friends in Belize."
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| x Win-win |
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"Win-win" applies to situations where no party loses, as opposed to "zero sum game", where there are both winners and losers, and "lose-lose" where nobody wins.
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| x Push back |
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To resist.
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| x Manage expectations |
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| x Take ownership |
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| x The big picture |
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| x Take offline |
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Discuss a sensitive or highly specific topic individually or in a small group away from a larger group: "Let's take this discussion of the paper towel dispensers offline."
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| x Touch base |
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Synchronizing information. Checking in.In baseball, a player who is touching a base is not in danger of being put out.
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| x Individual contributor |
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| x Need to lead |
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| x Add value |
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| x Circle back |
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| x Cross the chasm |
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From Geoffrey Moore's book "Crossing the Chasm" where he argues there is a chasm between the early adopters of the product and the early majority. Generally, the task of acquring early adopters.
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