The "Going Forward" Disease

Caoimhín · 08-04-2010 11:06AM

Look lads, we are where we are

Canis Lupus · 08-04-2010 11:07AM

My company has a "Growing Forwards" thing going on at the moment.

ejmaztec · 08-04-2010 11:10AM

"going down the sh1tter" is the new "going forward".

orourkeda · 08-04-2010 11:22AM

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

I always wonder what other way could they go?

Sideways. Backwards, Down the toilet, out of their own arse etc

orourkeda · 08-04-2010 11:26AM

There's a lot of joined up thinking in this thread. We need to display our core competencies going forward.

We need to be more proactive when thinking outside the box and manage expectations going forward..

IvyTheTerrible · 08-04-2010 11:29AM

orourkeda wrote: »

There's a lot of joined up thinking in this thread. We need to display our core competencies going forward.

We need to be more proactive when thinking outside the box and manage expectations going forward..

Gaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh *head explodes*

orourkeda · 08-04-2010 11:32AM

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

Gaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh *head explodes*

If you were a team player you would push the envelope for low hanging fruit here.

We also need to take ownership of the big picture

prinz · 08-04-2010 11:37AM

The next person to use the phrase going forward is getting a silver bullet.

orourkeda · 08-04-2010 11:42AM

prinz wrote: »

The next person to use the phrase going forward is getting a silver bullet.

Touch base with the leveraged silver bullet going forward

prinz · 08-04-2010 11:48AM

orourkeda wrote: »

Touch base with the leveraged silver bullet going forward

I was trying to bottom line this thread but you went there, we need to get some one on one quality communication team to make sure we're not horizontally duplicating our output.

orourkeda · 08-04-2010 11:56AM

prinz wrote: »

I was trying to bottom line this thread but you went there, we need to get some one on one quality communication team to make sure we're not horizontally duplicating our output.

But that would mean gaining traction through turnkey solutions.

whadabouchasir · 08-04-2010 11:59AM

prinz wrote: »

I was trying to bottom line this thread but you went there, we need to get some one on one quality communication team to make sure we're not horizontally duplicating our output.

IN the present climate I think that a think tank needs to be put in place to adopt a more dynamic and pragmatic approach going forward in order to deal with the real issues here and establish a knowledge based economy going forwards.

bigjohnny80 · 08-04-2010 12:14PM

Cowen uses it CONSTANTLY.

Its like the last 10 years of his fook ups don't matter.

bazmaiden · 08-04-2010 12:20PM

In any of the meetings i've attended lately its all been "moving forward"

its just another buzz word in the language of nobody as explained nicely in this book

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0752871862.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

its worth a read

orourkeda · 08-04-2010 12:26PM

bazmaiden wrote: »

In any of the meetings i've attended lately its all been "moving forward"

its just another buzz word in the language of nobody as explained nicely in this book

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0752871862.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

its worth a read

How granular

rainbowtrout · 08-04-2010 12:28PM

whadabouchasir wrote: »

IN the present climate I think that a think tank needs to be put in place to adopt a more dynamic and pragmatic approach going forward in order to deal with the real issues here and establish a knowledge based economy going forwards.

..because we need to grow the economy... With what???!!! Fcuking fertilizer???

Whatever happened to using the words develop/expand/increase/improve?

Farmers grow crops, we do not grow economies

mickos · 08-04-2010 12:30PM

orourkeda wrote: »

There's a lot of joined up thinking in this thread. We need to display our core competencies going forward.

We need to be more proactive when thinking outside the box and manage expectations going forward..

Nobody uses 'thinking outside the box' anymore, that's so 90's! Diversification is the key word in these challenging times;)

Elessar · 08-04-2010 12:53PM

Singing from the same hymn sheet is another.

I think I heard it twice in my working life. I wanted to punch the f*ckers who said it. (always managers)

Naos · 08-04-2010 01:39PM

Going forward what we need to do is speculate to accumulate. We will need to spend money to make money here, have a think about it and touch base with me at a later date.

bonzodog2 · 08-04-2010 01:42PM

I'll get my people to talk to your people, and we can do lunch on a level playing field, OK ?

InReality · 08-04-2010 03:04PM

Its such a pointless and embarrassing phrase. Always begs the question - well when were we going backwards ? Might as well end your sentences singing "la la smiley face".