Buzzwords that make boardrooms spin and PowerPoints sing.
A professional deal-maker in retail or manufacturing who sources inventory and negotiates prices with suppliers. Think of them as the person who makes or breaks your margins before anything hits the shelf.
An email composed explicitly for the purpose of lodging a formal complaint, blending 'complain' and 'email' into one perfectly descriptive portmanteau. It's what you send when you need documentation of your grievance.
To assemble, organize, and deploy resources (troops, capital, assets) into coordinated action for a specific purpose—the corporate equivalent of yelling 'let's go' and actually meaning it.
A person who runs on pure kinetic energy and caffeine, perpetually moving and accomplishing things while making everyone else look sluggish. Originally an electricity generator, now used to describe humans who seem to generate power from sheer force of will.
Your mirror image in an alternate dimension, or more practically, the matching piece that complements you. Used extensively in business to describe the person you negotiate with across the table.
A business entity or criminal organization operating under a unified name—the corporate kind makes profit, the other kind makes headlines. In business speak, it's your go-to term when you want to sound official without specifying whether you're talking about a partnership, corporation, or loosely organized outfit.
The ability to withstand something unpleasant without crumbling—whether it's pain, diverse viewpoints, or questionable management decisions. In biological contexts, it's your body's remarkable capacity to shrug off poisons or infections.
Actually doing what it's supposed to do, rather than just looking good in PowerPoint. An effective strategy produces real results; an effective employee delivers measurable value without requiring constant supervision.
To strategically skip your workplace team lunch (usually citing dietary restrictions, prior plans, or professional laziness) but enthusiastically rejoin the group for post-lunch drinks. A tactic that extracts maximum fun while minimizing commitment.
Keeping something alive, functional, or supported long enough to matter—whether it's a business, an argument, or your motivation on a Monday morning. It's the art of maintenance disguised as progress.
South-East Asian slang for someone who takes genuine pride in their work and executes it excellently—the employee every boss wants and can't afford to lose.
To cut the cord, sever ties, or cleanly separate one thing from another—often used when companies finally acknowledge they're not compatible. It's the corporate equivalent of a breakup executed with HR efficiency.
Co-conspirators in business; people you'll share wins, losses, and surprisingly heated arguments about equity splits with. Legally bound together tighter than a TPS report bureaucracy.
A vendor or service supplier—anyone who provides something you need but probably overcharge for because you don't have better options. The plural: enough to create a 'vendor ecosystem.'
Functional and repairable; the sad reality of products designed before planned obsolescence was invented. Something that can actually be fixed instead of landfilled.
A documented strategy or architectural drawing; what every project manager pretends to follow before reality sets in. The written record of intentions that gets abandoned by week two.
A catalog, register, or inventory of items; the foundation of every startup that promises to 'organize all your data.' Also what project managers obsessively update while pretending it controls chaos.