"best practices," "moving forward"

Posted by Bruce Kahl on December 16, 2003

In Reply to: "Best practices," "moving forward" posted by david kipen on December 16, 2003

: hi, it's me, the san francisco chronicle book critic again. i'm ginning up a little something on political/management rhetoric, and i'd love to see possible derivations of either "best practices," employed to mean "the most efficient techniques used by the competition," or "moving forward," employed to mean, well, as little as possible, as in "we're coming together in proactive way to start moving forward on..."

Oh man do I hate that corporate crapola jingoism stuff like "in a proactive way" and "moving forward" and the best/worst one: "on a go forward basis".
Back into my hole I go.

Here's an offering that means as much as the original phrases Lotg 16/December/03
- Best practice R. Berg 17/December/03
  - Best practice ESC 17/December/03
    - Proactive ESC 17/December/03
      - Proactive ESC 17/December/03
        
        Proactive Dilbert 17/December/03
        
        Corporate-speak ESC 17/December/03
        
        Corporate-speak Dilbert 17/December/03
        
        Corporate-speak Bookworm 17/December/03
        
        Corporate-speak Word Camel 17/December/03
        
        Corporate-speak Bookworm 17/December/03
        
        The ink blots spread... Word Camel 17/December/03
        
        So bad it's fantastic Lotg 17/December/03
        
        So bad it's fantastic R. Berg 17/December/03
        
        PowerPoint poisoning ESC 18/December/03