Define: "Shoulder Tap" in Business
High risk of unnecessary meetings
"Tell them you are in the middle of a BGP table rebuild. They won't know what that means, but the acronyms will scare them away."
A quick, informal request for assistance or information, typically occurring outside of established project management or ticketing systems.
What does "Shoulder Tap" actually mean?
"A physical jump-scare where a VP bypasses the entire Change Control Board to demand you route a specific VLAN for their pet project on a switch that hasn't been supported since Obama was in office."
"We need to reduce shoulder tap requests to ensure our engineers can maintain focus on high-priority deliverables."
"I cannot finish the firewall migration because the VP keeps giving me shoulder tap requests to bypass security protocols for his iPad."
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18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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