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Microspeak: Actionable

October 10, 2007 Oct 10, 2007 10/10/07

Raymond Chen

The word actionable has as its primary meaning "providing grounds for legal action", but in the world of management, it is the secondary meaning "capable of being acted upon" that is more common. Something that is actionable provides a specific demand for action. Although I'm not necessarily a big fan of the word itself, I definitely ...