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"stakeholders" Can I ask what do you think this the term "stakeholders" describes and what alternative terms you should use?

• mattmanser 2y ago
  Stakeholder is corporate jargon. User, customer or client are the normal, non-corporate jargon, terms. A cynic might think 'stakeholder' gets used when a company forgets about the end-users.
  • jf22 2y ago
    I was more interested in the original authors definition as he called it part of a word salad. I don't see a problem with some terms as being corporate jargon. That's just shorthand for an idea the same way any slang for a group is shorthand.
    • palata 2y ago
      Here is why I did not answer: I don't think you are genuinely interested, I think you just disagree and were trying to argue that it was not a "word salad". Which is valid, it's okay to disagree with my subjective opinion. For the sake of the argument: I say "apple, pear, avocado... that's a salad!" and you answer "Why would you say that an apple is necessarily part of a salad? How should I call an apple if I don't want it to sound like it is part of a salad?" What makes a salad is the aggregation of multiple ingredients. Of course "stakeholders" is not a word salad.
      • jf22 2y ago
        You typed more about your definition of "word salad" than you did about stakeholders. I think business shorthand is great. The word stakeholders has meaning and isn't part of a word salad to me.
        • palata 2y ago
          > You typed more about your definition of "word salad" than you did about stakeholders. Because it seems to me that you focus on my definition of "stakeholders" but you actually have not understood what I was trying to say, which requires understanding what I mean by "word salad". > The word stakeholders has meaning and isn't part of a word salad to me. And this confirms that my point hasn't been understood.
          • jf22 2y ago
            Yes, I do not understand your point.