16 Most Annoying Business Phrases and Buzzwords

16. Core Competency

This phrase is coined to describe the strong points of a company or of an individual. The trouble is that isn’t what competency means. Also, core? What about peripheral competency?

15. Ecosystem

Seriously? Are you going to use ecosystem to describe your organization? So, in that analogy, who gets to be mosquito? I’m guessing predators represent the upper management, but you can’t have an ecosystem without plants also.

16 Most Annoying Business Phrases and Buzzwords