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Want to be considered a mature team player at work? Read this!

Last updated on: July 27, 2018 11:59 IST

Presenting 10 jargon phrases that you can use to impress your boss at work.

Hate being called a bad team player?

Feel that you need to control how your colleagues perceive you at work?

Wish you were seen as a more mature team player?

Then these jargon phrases from Rishi Piparaiya's book Job Be Damned are meant for you! 

  1. Let's agree to disagree

  2. But what does our customer want?

  3. Let me call out the elephant in the room

  4. We seem to have all the ducks in a row

  5. What are we bringing to the table?

  6. Let's not keep moving the goal posts

  7. It is what it is…

  8. Just want to give you a heads up…

  9. Let's keep each other in the loop on this one

  10. It's a win-win situation

Excerpted from Job Be Damned by Rishi Piparaiya, with the permission of the publishers, Harper Collins.

 Lead image -- a still from Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year -- used for representational purposes only.

Rishi Piparaiya