Not to be the , but…
say it right before you derail the meeting
- quicksand in the quarry
- speed bump at the parade
- pothole in the roadmap
- skunk at the garden party
- rainstorm on the road trip
- cop at the keg party
- fly in the fruit cup
- orange cone in the fast lane
- spider in the sock drawer
- Excel spreadsheet at the birthday party
- accident on the exit ramp
- red light again here
…and also, not to:
- boil the ocean
- sound the alarm
- disrupt our alignment
- step on my own rake
- pull down the oxygen masks during takeoff
- hang the banner during preseason
- pop the champagne before tip-off
- hand him the ball on fourth and goal
- put the penny back in the cannon
- explain water to a fish
- get into the weeds and ignore the garden
- zoom us in too far
- leave the laundry on the living room floor
- empty the junk drawer
- put the plow before the snow
Meeting Bingo
tap a square when somebody says it
If I could off that real quick
agree with the last person while sounding like you added something
- piggyback
- springboard
- dovetail
- leapfrog
- parachute
- catapult
- cascade
- waterfall
- avalanche
- barrel roll
- cartwheel
- somersault
- bungee jump
- pole vault
- jet ski
- dirt bike
- zipline
- parkour
- fishtail
- kickflip
- bicycle kick
- kick and roll
- do a meringue
- surf that wave
How do we solve for ?
- less month? (it’s February)
- less week? (daylight saving)
- more meetings?
- more golf?
- more tech?
- how do we finish July, July first?
- can we functionally push February to March?
If I could just…
add something without adding anything
- add another layer to the cake
- add a little seasoning to the dish
- toss another log on the fire
- pump some more air in the tire
- fertilize the lawn really quick
- varnish the porch swing here
- pitch us a tent at a higher altitude
- pull us into the garage and get under the hood
- take us up to 30,000 feet
- bring us down to street level
- clear the windshield here
- take the governor off the Gran Torino
- punch us into the end zone
- roll us farther down the hill
- land that plane / stick the landing / dock the ship
- triple-click on that
Said Expensively
February is short
- a length-disadvantaged time cycle
- shrunken chronological architecture
- reduced business day inventory
The month is ending
- the posterior edge of the multi-velocity corridor
- the shrinking opportunity aperture
- the culminating monthly node of the Q1 construct
- the terminal half of the secondary fiscal quadrant
It's a holiday
- Memorial Day: a significantly disruptive calendrical event
- Daylight saving: one less hour in the weekly time envelope
- Fourth of July: a preemptive mental transition into recreation mode
- Tax Day: cognitive overhead amongst personnel
Around the office
- Coffee machine broke: an energy crisis amongst personnel
- Dirty microwave: a hostile operating atmosphere
- World Cup at work: tournament-centric disruptors
- Someone’s out sick: short-term executional drag
- Birthday: a scalable year with minimal turbulence
- Missed target: less a projection, more a conclusion
We don’t want to…
point out a problem without naming it
- adjust the sails all day and forget to leave the harbor
- merge into the express lane without checking our blind spot
- drive off from the gas pump while still filling the tank
- draw the roadmap while we’re on the freeway
- land the plane before we’ve cleared the runway
- microwave a brisket
- install an elevator to keep taking the stairs
- frame the trophy before the season’s over
- get caught reading the menu while the kitchen’s closed
- let the workforce declare independence a day early
- spend the quarter in the penalty box
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EXPENSE REPORT · Q3 · DO NOT REIMBURSE
- AI-first approach1.00
- AI-forward enterprise1.00
- AI-by-default value chain2.50
- AI-enabled go-to-market notion3.00
- AI-informed decision-making1.25
- AI-driven solution portfolio4.75
- AI fluency (workforce)0.50
- AI-native operating model2.00
- Agentic workflows9.99
- Human-in-the-loop framework1.00
- Streamlined enablement strategy6.00
- Future-focused lens0.75
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Verbing it
any noun can do a job if you believe in it
- Solution this temporal catastrophe
- Roadmap some dialogue
- Surface / spotlight / flag that
- Action the lineups weekly
- Operationalize and democratize AI
- Future-proof our differentiators
- Leverage my golf outings
- Backfill the throughput gap
- Moon this thing
When it’s your turn
and you have nothing to add
- Great callout there.
- Very well framed.
- Couldn’t have framed it better myself.
- Excellent visibility there.
- Invaluable intuition there, my friend.
- Thank you for giving oxygen to that.
- So glad you surfaced that.
- I 1,000% agree.
- Yeah, go ahead. / You can. / It does.