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stakeholder

Bureaucratic
/ˈsteɪkˌhoʊl.dɚ/n. (diffuse responsibility)

Etym.From Middle English 'stake' plus 'holder', adopted into managerial vocabulary via late twentieth-century consulting slide decks; see Langford, Management Linguistics Quarterly, 1998.

A stakeholder is a nominal constituency invoked to broaden the list of affected parties, thereby diffusing responsibility and postponing decisions.

'We need alignment from every affected group before proceeding' - All-Hands Transcript, June 2023

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