(1). A basketball term used by management to pressure sales staff to concentrate on a favored (read: expensive) or, more likely, under-performing product.
Full Court Press
RANDOM LINGO
Soft Block
(1). Something you build into the system to warn those morons in the business that they are about to bring down the company by punching the wrong keys.
“Oh, don’t worry about that … we’ve put a soft block with a dialogue box before letting you change those kinds of account parameters. Because, you know, everyone reads pop-up dialogue boxes.”
Sharpen Our Pencils
(1). To refine an analysis or proposal after a client tells you to try again. The term is typically heard during an embarrassing tap dance after the materials your new analyst prepared for the meeting ended up being a total mess. Next time, you might want to take a peek at the book before you walk into the the meeting, champ.
“I hear what you’re saying, Peter, and we’ll go back after we break up here, sharpen our pencils and get those new estimates to you ASAP … in the meantime, any updates on our last three invoices? Just checking…”