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Corporate Cowboy

In this context, the term “cowboy” has been given a negative connotation. In this sense, "cowboy" refers to those people who shoot around with empty word shells (hollow words or also buzzwords), especially in meetings with word salvos, in order to generate an impression among team members and supervisors to look as competent and intelligent as possible by using a lot of “intelligent or technical” words. This is also referred to as “bullshit-bingo” and causes a lot of hot air and dust but with a “peng-peng-wow-effect”, meaning, firstly, people are highly impressed and intimidated. But over time, team members and supervisors understand that it is just hot air and are in fact annoyed by the cowboy’s apperiance and “wana-be, joke cracking” leadership behaviour.
Their behavior is driven purely by opportunistic and egoistic nature and solely serves to present themselves strategically best in the company or in the team. Supervisors are slimed by the application of cowboyism, whereby people on the same level are run over by renewed word salvos and “peng-peng” gestures, knocked off and/or made mouth-dead.
The basic prerequisite for corporate cowboys is the lack of leadership qualities and incompetence of superiors or the deliberate promotion by other cowboys, who in turn satisfy each other's egoistic spirit in their own cowboy group to the point of neurological orgasm with their fictitious intelligence and pomposity. One calls it also "man round".
This dude is such a bullshit-bingo guy . He is a corporate cowboy......
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Did you listen to Steve? He was just ..peng peng peng peng peng peng...all the time.
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Corporate streamlining

The act of lowering product quality, raising the price, & wondering why profits are plummeting.
With all this corporate streamlining, we SHOULD be making more money than ever, but we're not...

...probably because of millennials.
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million dollar corporation

I'm a fuckn million dollar corporation man!
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The Corporate you

The corporate you is defined as talking to any employee as though they are the business as a whole. Example of the corporate you: "Excuse me, do you have any more of these in stock?"

It is like the opposite of the royal we. Its when you use the word "you" to an employee, but you arent referring to them personally, you are talking about the business using the employee as a stand in, because the corporate entity is not alive and cannot hear or answer for itself
Example of the corporate you: "Excuse me, do you have any more of these in stock?"
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Pope Corporation | PC

Pope Corporation is a Roblox company that Marketing, Luxury travel advice, Medical studies, Networking services, Global networking & global services, and Insurance. They do best in their complex in Los Angeles.
"I went to Pope Corporation | PC in LA, today!"
by Olivia Carolyn Pope January 26, 2021
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Person 1: How are you making so much money? Do you have a job?
Person 2: No I’m selling shares of corporations
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Corporate Damage

Someone who's been working in corporate for along time brings over engineered ways of thinking to startups.
Jim: "Let's hit the market tomorrow and validate it!"; Jeff "But what about the QA Testing, Validation surveys, Focus groups, Consultancy Input, 50+ analysis document?", Jim: "You are so corporate damaged."
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