Commonly used phrases heard in consulting?

“Chicken and the egg”
“Moot point"

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Sweaty, droopy, saggy, “low hanging fruit”. 🤔

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More like:
Mute point
Intensive purposes
Peaked interest

People are stupid

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I hate “double click"

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Operationalize

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Bandwidth
Rework
Value-add
Boil the ocean
Restructure

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This has been covered so many times .... stop the madness. 🤪

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“Does that make sense?” 🤬

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As someone on the bench right now, bandwidth is the most ridiculous of all. Just ask if I have time its not that hard

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