'Moving on' sounds like failure, but 'pivoting' is hot startup jargon, so to make sure to sound successful, you need to 'pivot' and not 'move on' :)
(Disclaimer: I caught myself saying 'pivot' in a pitch last week, and literally cringing in my chair when I realized it - luckily it was on the phone so I don't think anyone caught it ;) )
It's not really 'detrimental', hence my smiley and wink; it's more that I feel it's a fashionable word which will lose it's cool next year when the next buzzword shows up. It's a bit the startup equivalent of 'synergy', the much-maligned MBA word.
(I recognize that it's a perfectly valid word (both 'pivot' and 'synergy', actually), and conveys lots of information in a simple word, which in general is good; it's just that it has become the epitome of MBA-speak which is sometimes scoffed at for its perceived vapidness or attempt at sounding important).
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'Moving on' sounds like failure, but 'pivoting' is hot startup jargon, so to make sure to sound successful, you need to 'pivot' and not 'move on' :)
(Disclaimer: I caught myself saying 'pivot' in a pitch last week, and literally cringing in my chair when I realized it - luckily it was on the phone so I don't think anyone caught it ;) )
I regularly read things like this. Why is saying 'pivot' detrimental?
It's not really 'detrimental', hence my smiley and wink; it's more that I feel it's a fashionable word which will lose it's cool next year when the next buzzword shows up. It's a bit the startup equivalent of 'synergy', the much-maligned MBA word.
(I recognize that it's a perfectly valid word (both 'pivot' and 'synergy', actually), and conveys lots of information in a simple word, which in general is good; it's just that it has become the epitome of MBA-speak which is sometimes scoffed at for its perceived vapidness or attempt at sounding important).
It is, as Bernard Wooley would say if he were still around, one of those irregular verbs.
I pivot, you change your mind, he flip-flops.