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I found out that to be respected in a business world, or to seem that you are respected, you must learn to speak incomprehensibly on a wide range of topics. A good way to start being incomprehensible is by memorizing some phrases and liberily sprinkling them into your conversations. They can be used to talk about any subject where you want to show that you have a command of the situation when in fact you have no clue about what is going on.

Good things to be doing:

See the big picture,
Line up all the ducks
Have sidebar
Get on the same page
Move goal posts
Put it on the back burner
Touch base
Dip your toes in the water
Table it for later
Get a handle on it
Get more bang for your buck
Take it and run with it
Make a no brainer decision
Set aggressive but achievable goals
Keep ahead of the game
Shorten launch curves
Manage from top down
Think outside the box
Embrace change
Manage expectations
Swing for the fence
Do a sanity check
View it from thirty thousand feet
Press the flesh
Get back to basics
Put it to bed
Reach out
See what’s coming down the pike
Take a rain check
Throw the dead cat in someone else’s backyard
Make sure the left hand knows what the right one is doing
Stretch the envelope
Sing from the same hymn sheet
Hit the ground running
Drill down the into the data

Things you don’t want to be caught doing:

Reinvent the wheel
Find yourself on a slippery slope
Miss the window of opportunity
Raise a red flag
Shuffle the deck chairs
Have a scope creep
Jump on the grenade
Make a career limiting move
Fall on the sword
Get lost in the woods

Feel free to use it in your next meeting….