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The Importance of Being Earnest

Stakeholders are very useful, just as the barbarians at the gates are …

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stakeholder | ˈstākˌ(h)ōldər | noun 1 (in gambling) an independent party with whom each of those who make a wager deposits the money or counters wagered. 2 a person with an interest or concern in something, especially a business. • [as modifier] denoting a type of organization or system in which all the members or participants are seen as having an interest in its success: a stakeholder economy.

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No one has ever met a stakeholder who is cared about a fig. The office of stakeholder is to create an excuse for failure of a highly specific scheme after getting buy-in on some gauzy sentiment.
Really, everyone owned a piece of this

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