Buzzwords that make boardrooms spin and PowerPoints sing.
The concept of everyone being roughly equivalent in value and treatment, which sounds great in theory but requires actual effort to implement in practice. It's what we all agree to in principle while quietly maintaining our hierarchies and biases.
That thing you claim to have on LinkedIn that's often just Google searches with a confidence boost. Actual expertise is deep knowledge or skill that makes you valuable enough that people pay for your opinion.
In corporate-speak, the art of actually getting stuff done instead of just talking about it in meetings. The difference between a brilliant PowerPoint and a product that exists in the real world. Show me your execution and I'll show you your promotion timeline.
The expensive shadows that follow important people around—a carefully curated collection of yes-men, assistants, and hangers-on whose primary job is to ensure nobody bothers the VIP. Status symbol in human form. Example: The celebrity's entourage occupied an entire floor of the hotel.
A humorous euphemism for permanent departure from employment—whether through resignation, retirement, or passing away. It's the ultimate PTO that nobody comes back from.