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Define: "Buy-in"
What HR thinks it means:
Gaining agreement and support from team members on a new initiative.
What it actually means:
"The exhausting process of convincing everyone not to sabotage the VP's new pet project."
Use it in a meeting:
"We spent six weeks trying to get stakeholder buy-in for a firewall rule change that took literally thirty seconds to type."
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