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Vol. I · No. 251
Mon · 8 Jun
A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data
The Lexicon

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executive buy-in

/ɪɡˈzek.jə.tɪv ˈbaɪ.ɪn/ - n.

1. Term struck pending a definition of the thing bought into, the price paid, and the moment the buyer would be asked to refund it.

Struck
See also
  • alignmentThe state of having agreed on the word 'alignment.'
  • chief data officerAn accountability spread across an average tenure shorter than a remediation plan.
  • executive sponsorThe name on the kickoff slide, available again at the one-year retrospective.
  • the businessThe party to whom accountability is assigned precisely because it is not a person. The requirement came from the business, was approved by the business, and was owned, in the end, by no one who answers to that name.