(1). To request a “connection” with someone on linkedin.com usually used by older, senior managers to (1) appear hip to their junior employees, and (2) keep tabs on employees’ job-seeking activities online.
Link Up
RANDOM LINGO
Centers of Influence
(1). People who usually have more direct access to potential clients than you do (usually a bunch of obnoxious lawyers or accountants who love getting free stuff from banks).
“We’re going to be focusing our outreach efforts this year on local centers of influence. That means we’re going to need a larger budget for tote bags, pens and the occasional day planner.”
What We Do Best
(1). What you say when trying to explain the value you add to the company’s business (which, for most of us, is pretty hard to define).
“‘What we do best’? I’ll tell you what we do best … blah, blah, blah … Just do your job and shut the hell up!”
Props to Brent D. for the submission.