Corporate jargon starting with F or G
44 terms of corporate jargon starting with F or G, from fail fast to growth mindset. A friendly reminder means you forgot, and give 110% means work harder.
Every term under F and G
F
- fail fast
- try and drop it
- Test ideas quickly and abandon the ones that do not work.
- fast-paced environment
- too much work
- More work than there are people to do it.
- feedback sandwich
- praise, criticism, praise
- Criticism slipped between two compliments.
- fire drill
- fake emergency
- A sudden scramble over something urgent, often for nothing.
- firefighting
- fixing crises
- Spending the day on urgent problems instead of planned work.
- first-mover advantage
- being first pays
- The edge a company gets from entering a market before rivals.
- floating holiday
- pick-your-day off
- A paid day off you choose the date of.
- flywheel
- self-feeding growth
- A cycle where each win makes the next one easier.
- following up
- still waiting
- Opens the second email about the same unanswered first one.
- for visibility
- so you know
- Copies someone in so they cannot say they were not told.
- force multiplier
- makes others better
- Something or someone that makes a whole team more effective.
- four-day week
- three-day weekend
- Working four days a week, ideally for the same pay.
- freemium
- free, then paid
- Free basic version, paid extras.
- friendly reminder
- you forgot
- A nudge about something overdue, worded to sound nice.
- fringe benefits
- perks
- Extras on top of pay, like health cover or a gym.
- FTE
- one full-time job
- Full-time equivalent: one full-time workload, which two part-timers can share.
- furlough
- unpaid time off, forced
- Sending staff home, unpaid or part-paid, for a while.
- future-proof
- won't date
- Built to stay useful as things change.
- FYI
- for your information
- For your information: read it, no reply needed.
G
- game changer
- big deal
- Something that changes the situation a lot, or is said to.
- gap analysis
- where we fall short
- Comparing where you are with where you want to be.
- gatekeeper
- the one in the way
- The assistant or rule standing between a seller and the decision maker.
- gentle reminder
- you forgot
- A polite nudge about something late, usually not the first one.
- get the ball rolling
- start
- Start something, often by booking a meeting about it.
- An idiom dictionary traces it to a sport where keeping the ball moving mattered, without saying which one, and dates it to the late 1700s.
- ghost job
- fake opening
- A job ad for a role nobody plans to fill soon.
- ghosted
- never heard back
- Dropped by a recruiter or employer with no reply.
- give 110%
- work harder
- Work harder than is possible, by arithmetic.
- go live
- launch
- Switch a system or product on for real users.
- go-to-market
- launch plan
- The plan for selling a new product, GTM for short: who, where, how.
- going forward
- from now on
- From now on, usually said before a new rule.
- golden handshake
- generous goodbye
- A large payment to someone leaving, often to leave early.
- golden parachute
- rich exit deal
- A big payout promised to an executive who loses the job.
- granular
- detailed
- Down to the fine detail.
- greenfield
- starting fresh
- A project built from scratch, with nothing old to work around.
- greenwashing
- fake green claims
- Making a company sound greener than it is.
- grindset
- overwork
- Overwork presented as a personality, usually in a post.
- growth hacking
- cheap growth tricks
- Cheap, fast tricks to grow the number of users.
- growth mindset
- you can improve
- Believing ability grows with effort, now a performance-review phrase.
Before F and G: E. After F and G: H. All letters: corporate jargon.