Banning Phrases - Adoption by Corporations

I heard (on the radio this morning) about a mayor in a Russian city who banned various phrases for city employees. The mayor explains his rationale as:

• City officials should help improve people's lives and solve their problems, not make excuses.
• I am tired of civil servants telling me that problems were impossible to solve, rather than offering practical solutions.
• the use of these expressions by city administration officials while speaking to the head of the city will speed their departure.
  

The phrases include:

• What am I supposed to do?
• I'm not dealing with this
• We're having lunch
• The working day is over
• Somebody else has the documents
• I think I was off sick at the time
• It's lunch time

This got me to thinking that something similar maybe should be adopted by other organizations. Certainly there are a lot of phrases that become part of people's lexicon that help them avoid helping to solve problems. For me, it's one of the most frustrating things to deal with. Non-answers. Avoidance.

Thoughts?