Corporate

HeadwindsThings went badly
Protects: Management from the first-person plural.
Learning opportunityFailure
Protects: Everyone in the meeting from saying what happened.
Let goFired
Protects: The manager from being the subject of the sentence.
Revenue shortfallWe lost money
Protects: The speaker from a first-person sentence.
RightsizingLayoffs
Protects: The people doing the firing from the word "firing."

← Back to the dictionary