Define: "Rubber Stamping" in Business
Multi-headcount capital waste
"Sneak your PTO requests in alongside massive architectural change orders. They will approve both without reading."
The routine approval of requests or documents without careful review or critical assessment.
What does "Rubber Stamping" actually mean?
"A VP blindly clicking 'Approve' on a million-dollar invoice while sitting in traffic."
"Our audit found that the current procurement process has devolved into mere rubber stamping."
"The steering committee is just rubber stamping the vendor contract, nobody actually read the SLASLAA metric we are currently failing, but will creatively report as 'green' by redefining the outage. terms."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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