Green Weenies and Due Diligence: Inside Business Jargon--Raw, Serious and Sometimes Funny.Green Weenies and Due Diligence Research; analysis; your homework. This term has caught on in all industries, because it sounds so "wired." Who would want to do analysis or research when they can do due diligence. See wired. : Inside Business Jargon--Raw, Serious and Sometimes Funny. By Ron Sturgeon sturgeon, primitive fish of the northern regions of Europe, Asia, and North America. Unlike evolutionarily advanced fishes, it has a fine-grained hide, with very reduced scalation, a mostly cartilaginous skeleton, upturned tail fins, and a mouth set well back on the . Mike French & Co., 188 pages. $28.95 Quick: define any or all of these terms sometimes used in business--"long pole in the tent," "deal toy," "sharing teeth," "bag of snakes." Don't look for any help here. To learn what these and hundreds of other weird, silly and amusing terms mean, you'll have to pick up Ron Sturgeon's book. It's literally a dictionary, divided by general subject--management and strategic issues, sales and marketing, etc.--of the phrases that the office cognoscenti co·gno·scen·te n. pl. co·gno·scen·ti A person with superior, usually specialized knowledge or highly refined taste; a connoisseur. bandy about around the water cooler. It isn't all entertainment: some chapters are filled mostly with commonly understood business terms. But the fun is in the offbeat off·beat n. Music An unaccented beat in a measure. adj. Slang Not conforming to an ordinary type or pattern; unconventional: offbeat humor. . Abetted wonderfully by drawings from the artist of the macabre, Gahan Wilson, this book is a guilty pleasure, pure and simple. |
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