The Most Common Buzzwords · Vice President level

"Alignment"

"Alignment" means shared agreement or understanding across a team or organization, typically on a goal, decision, or plan.

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How "Alignment" shows up at work

Alignment is the noun form of a verb that was already doing too much work. Teams "drive alignment," "create alignment," and "check for alignment" in meetings explicitly called alignment meetings. The word scales up with seniority: interns agree, VPs align.

Buzzword

We need full alignment across product and sales before the board meeting.

Plain English

We need full agreement across product and sales before the board meeting.

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