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These terms did not have their own wikipedia pages

  • Bleeding edge: Operating with cutting-edge technologies that are still untested and/or unstable, leading to cost overruns, under-performance, and/or delayed delivery
  • Lost in the weeds: Decision-making stalled by focusing too much on tiny details
  • Revolving door: An organization or team with high staff turnover that struggles to be effective, especially in maintaining continuity or business knowledge
  • Top-down management: A style of management where decisions and ideas too often start at the top and are passed down through successive levels
  • Typecasting: Locking successful employees into overly-safe, narrowly-defined, predictable roles based on their past successes rather than their potential
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