Define: "Spitballing" in Business
High risk of unnecessary meetings
"Never write down a spitballed idea. Stare blankly into the distance and silently wait for the impulse to pass."
An informal brainstorming technique where ideas are shared freely without immediate criticism.
What does "Spitballing" actually mean?
"Executives casually threatening the stability of the entire infrastructure with terrible unbudgeted ideas they read in an inflight magazine."
"Let's spend the first twenty minutes of the meeting just spitballing some creative solutions."
"The Director was just spitballing but somehow his idea to replace the Juniper core with prosumer mesh Wi-Fi became a Q3 roadmap objective."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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