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management

What it really means

Definition: What everyone else does, so we can blame them if it fails.

"According to industry best practices, we should..."
Overheard in a meeting that could have been an email

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PowerPoint presentation you'll spend all night making.

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Departments that don't talk to each other and blame each other for failures.

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