Define: "Shirtfronting" in Business
High risk of unnecessary meetings
"Always have the Palo Alto traffic drops and a Wireshark PCAP ready to share on screen so you can definitively prove the application team's code is broken before they finish their sentence."
Addressing an issue directly and assertively with a colleague.
What does "Shirtfronting" actually mean?
"Ambushing someone on a 50-person Zoom call to blame them for an outage before they can open their mouth."
"We encourage open feedback, but shirtfronting is not our culture."
"Did you see Dave shirtfronting marketing in the all-hands meeting?"
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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