Define: "Circle the wagons" in Business
Multi-headcount capital waste
"Keep rigorous email archives. When they circle the wagons, make sure you are standing outside the circle with the receipts."
To unite a group defensively in response to an external threat or criticism.
What does "Circle the wagons" actually mean?
"What management instinctively does to protect themselves from liability the moment the Change Advisory BoardChange Advisory BoardA tribunal of people who don't understand network architecture asking why you need to reboot a firewall at 3 AM. realizes the weekend deployment failed."
"We need to circle the wagons before the press conference to ensure our messaging is unified."
"The moment the AWS bill hit $50k, the DevOps team decided to circle the wagons and blame the legacy database structure."
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