India, Nov. 11 -- KPI, ROI and EBITDA are some of the most commonly used acronyms in the corporate world. However, using certain abbreviations in front of Cisco's Indian-origin executive could get a meeting terminated.

Jeetu Patel, president and chief product officer at Cisco, recently revealed why he sometimes ends meetings when employees use acronyms, particularly those coined internally by the company.

"I don't like acronyms, especially Cisco-manufactured acronyms that happen at runtime," Patel told Fortune during a small roundtable dinner.

"If there's a meeting and there's acronyms that are used, there are times that I've just terminated the meeting," he added.

Patel explained that his objection to acronyms stems from concerns abo...