Consulting & Strategy Jargon · Managing Director level

"Tiger team"

"Tiger team" means a small, focused group assembled specifically to solve one difficult problem, typically with urgency.

Say this instead: task force

How "Tiger team" shows up at work

Sounds more exciting than "task force," which is probably why managers reach for it. It implies speed and ferocity. Whether the team actually moves faster than a normal meeting-heavy group is a separate question nobody asks.

Buzzword

We're putting together a tiger team to get ahead of the platform stability issues.

Plain English

We're putting together a task force to get ahead of the platform stability issues.

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