The Redefining of Stakeholder

by Chris Abraham on 03/01/2007 ·

I hate what corporatespeak does to perfectly gorgeous language. Stakeholder, for example, means, “a third party who temporarily holds money or property while its owner is still being determined;” unfortunately, some management git changed it to mean, “a person or organization that has a legitimate interest in a project or entity.” Now everyone is a stakeholder. Egad.

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