Canine Cuisine - a very different kind of dog food that the Koreans plan to serve up during the World Cup, in spite of western sensibilities.

Captive Kidspace - places business can sell to kids, knowing that they can't escape. For example using Coke and burgers in American high schools to build future consumption patterns.

Career-Limiting Move (CLM) - Any ill-advised activity. For exampe, slagging off your boss while they are within earshot.

Circling the drain - a precursor to going down it. Often waiting for the best redundancy package.

Conspicuous non-consumption: a type of snobbery based on what an individual chooses not to buy. (e.g. 'we'd never have a satellite dish.')

Co-opertition - Co-operative competition, the idea that two apparently competing can benefit by working together. Sounded like an good idea in the dot com boom.

Core compentencies - what you or your company are good at. Used with amazing frequency considering that it is a wholly unnecessary addition to the language.

Corporate icon - a small symbolic image designed to provide a visual representation of company values, a window into the corporate soul. A particularly apposite term as money is the new religion and company HQs the new cathedrals.

Corporate logowear - those horrendous polo shirts bearing the corporate livery that American businesses seem to think that their employees enjoy wearing. Worse, some of them actually do.

Corporate vanity publishing: when businesses pay vast sums to produce beautiful coffee table books about themselves, their histories and their visions. The only people who will ever read these are the proofreaders at the publishing house. 

Corprocrats - high earning, high achieving individuals who are far more at home with other members of the international business elite than they are with ordinary citizens if their own country. In the UK, the kind of the people who only ever venture outside the M25 on a plane.

Cost envelope: the range of costs within which a major project's eventual price tag is predicted to fall. Those who embark on large infrastructure contracts regularly find themselves throwing the cost envelope in the shredder. 

Cradle to grave marketing: get 'em young and keep 'em till they die.

Culturally appropriate: weasel words used, usually by first world companies, to defend their actions in the third world. (eg. Mexican autoworkers get paid far less than their US counterparts because their salaries are culturally appropriate)

Cyclosis: the paranoia and bewilderment suffered by CEOs who have just realised that their company's performance over the last decade has entire been down to the favourable economic cycle - and that a trained chimp could have achieved similar results.