Define: "Cent Percent" in Business
High risk of unnecessary meetings
"Never offer 100 percent certainty in IT. Always promise 90 percent and cite unforeseen legacy dependencies to cover your escape route."
An expression of absolute certainty or complete agreement regarding a proposed plan or statement.
What does "Cent Percent" actually mean?
"Falsely guaranteeing absolute certainty to a project manager when you haven't even logged into the CLI to check the actual network topology yet."
"I am cent percent confident that this integration will streamline our workflow."
""Dave told the client we were cent percent ready for the weekend migration while I was still trying to find the admin password for the edge router.""
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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