1) And in that case, it's often a sort of a business tool, when a group of people or team is trying to generate new ideas or different approaches.
2) It's hard to just say things off the top of your head without
3) I think also other people's ideas, even when they are bad ideas after you had a chance to think about them, can spark your own ideas. You hear something from someone, and it makes you think something else and so.
cross-fertilization などともいう
4) Yeah, it's sort of a kind of control the group free association.
■ Greetings 「やあ、こんにちは」 (口語)
5) I think it comes also partially from science fiction. If you think of "Alien" is coming to visit the earth. Lots of times in...in movies, old movies and science fiction stories. They say "Greetings. Take me to your leader.
6) Yeah, my brother's been doing that for years and I do it occasionally. Although what I usually use in e-mail also means greetings, but it's a different word "salutations."
7) A couple of other things I sometimes use in e-mail are "Howdy", but that's usually when I wanna be a bit humorous or "Hi, there."
drop any kind of greetings and start writing as if it was a conversation and their answer in what was written in the previous e-mail.
■ lay back のんびりやる、リラックスする ビジネスの場合、形容詞の laid-back を使うと、あまりやる気の無い、 ゆったりし過ぎている、となる
9) Yeah, if you think of someone who's paying attention and who's interested in the enthusiastic, you think of them as sitting up straight or maybe even leaning forward. I always thought those motorcycles looked really uncomfortable too. Although I've never sat on once, I can't say for sure.
10) Up-and-coming is an adjective to describe people that have high potential. Nowadays sometimes they just call them high-potentials with an asset used as a noun or the talents. Sometimes people in the company that are expected to go far are called talents.
11) And there is uh...an older phrase also "rising star," somebody who's star type person who's coming up quickly from lower ranks in the company.
rising star 新進気鋭の
up and running 軌道に乗っている
12) That means every thing's organized and started and it's continuing along smoothly.