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THIS!!!
It annoyed me when so many major league teams started using it...then college teams started using it...now I know of a couple minor league teams using it. It'd downright stupid.
You don't hear it as often any more, but it annoyed the crap out of me whenever any team would refer to themselves as "America's Team", too.
One is “aligned” or “alignment”. Example: “We need to get Jane aligned with our project.” As if the individual’s opinion can be adjusted like a car wheel.
The other recent buzz phrase is “wildly important goals”, abbreviated as “WIG”. We have meetings called "WIG Huddles". This concept came out of the management buzz industry a few years back, but we just started using it here last year. The basic idea is you decide on the one or two essential things that have to succeed on a project or else it will fail, and make that the top priority. Whenever I hear it though, I feel like asking “But what if I’m working on something that is so insanely important that it’s absolutely BONKERS?”
Everyone here is on multiple projects and emergencies can happen at any time. This "WIG" idea is a way for a project manager to try to pretend those other things don't exist. They'd say that it is designed for us to let them know when we are too busy, so they can get other resources to keep the project on track. Of course, barring extreme circumstances it never works that way.
