Bandwidth

What it means

A finite personal resource that becomes infinite when a senior leader is asking and zero the moment you are.

What it actually means

I have capacity for anything except this.

How it is used in a sentence

"I just don't have the bandwidth for another workstream right now."

Filed under

Business Bafflegab — Language engineered so that nothing is ever anyone’s fault and no decision is ever final.

Euphemism — The phrase hides something specific. We decode it.

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