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It's almost always a weasel word because if you meant customer you would just say customer. Saying "stakeholder" permits a level of ambiguity about whose intere
by AlexandrB 1y ago
It's almost always a weasel word because if you meant customer you would just say customer. Saying "stakeholder" permits a level of ambiguity about whose interests are being represented.
- hollerith 1y agoIf I mean "customers, suppliers, neighboring businesses, employees, their families, investors and anyone else affected by my decision", should I write that out or should I just write "stakeholders"?
- fair_enough 1y agoOnly if you earnestly give a rat's ass about all of the above. Again, you're thinking of an "agile" stakeholder- not a "stakeholder capitalism" stakeholder. Why is this so difficult for you to grasp?
- hollerith 1y ago>Why is this so difficult for you to grasp? Because I personally haven't come across writings or speakings AFAICR in which "stakeholder" is used as a weasel word. I will avoid the word now that I've had this conversation.