The Encyclopedia Of Business Cliches
Business people like cliches. I’ve heard a lot of them in speeches, lectures, and meetings and you can find a lot more in the corporate documents. Recently, Seth Godin created a Squidoo lens called The Encyclopedia of Business Cliches where he and his readers posted a lot of words and expressions that have lost their meaning because of excessive usage.
These are my favorites:
- Thinking outside of the box
- At the end of the day
- Maximize leverage
- A leading provider of…
- Scalable, Sustainable, and Robust
- Bring a lot of value to the table
- Best of breed
- Improve ROI
You can see the full list and you can add more cliches here.

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