Bite Your Tongue

CIO Magazine reports on the most annoying workplace clichés as determined by 150 senior executives polled by Accountemps. We've all done it -- it is a part of business language. More and more however, it's also infecting our everyday speech. You know the language -- it's the annoying consultant talk. I've become so bad that it actually makes sense to me when I talk that way. In fact, I sometimes find myself struggling to say something just using simple language. To those I've annoyed, I'm sorry -- I don't know if I'm going to stop -- but being aware though, I just might start doing it on purpose! ;-) Here are the top 15 annoying words & phrases: 1) at the end of the day, 2) solution, 3) thinking outside the box, 4) synergy, 5) paradigm, 6) metrics, 7) take it offline, 8) redeployed people, 9) core competency, 10) win-win, 11) value-added, 12) get on the same page, 13) customer-centric, 14) generation x, and, 15) alignment.