“Good judgment comes from experience. And experience? Well that comes from poor judgment.” – Dean Martin

ManagementSpeak: I certainly can take responsibility for this having happened. That said, I’m very disappointed to hear we created a single point of failure.
Translation: My way of taking responsibility is to blame you for the problem I caused.

Our source’s way of taking responsibility is to keep a wary eye out for ManagementSpeaks and the managers who speak them … and to make sure the rest of us know about them.