Business BafflegabDiagnosis
Clusterfuck
KLUS-ter-fuknoun
What it means
A project with eleven owners, no decision-maker, and a launch date that cannot move.
What it actually means
Everyone is responsible, which is how nobody is.
How it is used in a sentence
"The integration has become a bit of a clusterfuck."
Filed under
Business Bafflegab — Language engineered so that nothing is ever anyone’s fault and no decision is ever final.
Diagnosis — The phrase already names a real problem. We define it properly.
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