Define: "Stickhandle" in Business
High risk of unnecessary meetings
"Corporate ice hockey. Keep your head down, guard your firewall rules, and let the executives put each other in the penalty box."
To carefully manage or guide a complex project, conversation, or initiative to a successful conclusion.
What does "Stickhandle" actually mean?
"Frantically slapping a highly political, doomed project back and forth until the clock runs out or a VP takes the blame."
"Sarah will stickhandle the vendor negotiations for the new quarter."
"We need someone to stickhandle the new return-to-office policy before the senior engineers all quit."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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