The End of the World is happening more often than we think.

The End of the world is a regular occurrence in business. However, do not worry a new one always starts tomorrow. The key is to make sure you are still alive, the currency results. Timing extremely importsnt, the business clock sets the pace.

In life, we are governed by dates, and typically, in sales, it is EOM (End of Month), EOQ (End of Quarter), YE (Year End). We of course know that no one knows this and as one of the best-kept secrets in businesses remains, protected then we still hold the upper hand.

At home, life is the same, but this time it is on the kids clock, School year by three as all in different Schools, Colleges & Universities,  each have different slots for Irish schools during the breaks, or extra tuition. Factor in the notion of holidays and other commitments; life becomes quite a balancing act.

Supply & Demand, kicks in as costs rise at peak times, but sometimes the customers hold the upper hand as they know our secret (EOM, EOQ & YE). Please do not tell them we know they know.

It is a game, it has its highs and lows, but like a game, we go back for more and always look forward to the New Year with hope, naturally making sure people know just how hard it will be.

We also invent new words for the ‘craic’, with the intention of making our lives easier if we just follow the programme….who is going to tell everyone else.

For fun, I said I would look up some of the words that make people mumble incoherently in an office environment.

Here are some of the words that you can try explaining to your family of friends but first ask them what the word means. (I used a small populous)

Linearity

A mathematical relationship or function that can be graphically represented as a straight line, as in two quantities that are directly proportional to each other, such as voltage and current in an RLC circuit, or the mass and weight of an object.

Work Speak.

Have you closed the deal yet? EOM

She said.

Have’nt a clue, when are you paid?

Forecast 

To estimate or predict in advance, especially to predict (weather conditions) by analysis of meteorological data Translated.

Work Speak

When will you close the deal?

She said.

What outfit will I wear tomorrow.

Pipeline

 A long pipe, typically underground, for conveying oil, gas, etc. over long distances.

Work Speak

Next Deal & cover?

She said.

We have a real fire & use coal & turf.

Compelling Event

Specific catalyst that is driving interest - by uncovering and understanding this you can accurately forecast when the deal can close?

Work Speak

What is driving the deal? Why us? Why now?

She said.

I must buy a new outfit.

Conversion

To the process of changing or causing something to change from one form to another.

Work Speak

Did you close it yet? How many deals do you have and how many did you close to get a conversion rate.

She said.

Oh that is easy, the kick after they score a try.

Here are two she gave me

Longitude.

Distance in degrees east or west of the prime meridian at 0° measured by the angle between the plane of the prime meridian and that of the meridian through the point in question, or by the corresponding time

Home Speak

Annual 3-day music festival that my two daughters disappeared to last weekend.

I said.

No way are they going. (She said too late, they gone).

Teamwork.

The combined action of a group, especially when effective and efficient.

Home Speak

Get your finger out; you have a list of jobs to do.

I said.

Write it down. (She handed me a list).

Now before she explains to me what a performance improvement plan means, as Yoda would say, “Where my diary is”? The soccer season is starting again, the girls have Hockey, Basketball, and my son has, Soccer, Rugby and golf. Mum & Dads taxi's back in Autumn.

Tick Tock.