Business Insight Zone

Some colleagues and I were talking about long-dead, now-dying, and will-be-dying phrases from the business world. Who knows when the last time was a US executive said “Take a memo!” — possibly there are a few Juraissic CEOs still plying their trade — but it’s a handy indicator of the type.

The specific culprit that got us talking about this was “the ever-increasing pace of technological change.” (You can also insert “business” in place of “technological.”) Our collective best guess was that, sometime soon, people will just stop saying this because everyone will take it as a given.

What’s your best example?  What did people used to say that they no longer do?  What do they say now that they won’t in five or ten years?