As well as AA and other 12-step programs, yes, business and motivational speakers are especially rampant with those. I got to where if I heard "think outside the box" one more time I was going to "box" somebody right to the mat!

I love that "bandaid on the fatal flesh-eating disease" analogy, Michael. That's exactly what platitudes feel like to me, except I've used the slightly different "bandaid on a bullet wound."