Define: "Peanut Buttering" in Business
Multi-headcount capital waste
"Pick the one project that affects your own resume the most, quietly finish it, and let the other fourteen burn."
The act of spreading resources or investments thinly across multiple projects rather than focusing on a few priorities.
What does "Peanut Buttering" actually mean?
"Forcing an already burnt-out engineering team to work on fifteen different Priority 1 initiatives so that absolutely nothing actually gets completed."
"We need to avoid peanut buttering our budget and instead focus heavily on our core competencies."
"Management is peanut buttering our three network admins across four massive cloud migrations, meaning everything is going to fail at a slow, agonizing pace."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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