Career-Limiting Move
An act that quietly caps your trajectory — correcting the CEO publicly, skipping the VP's pet project, being right too loudly. Abbreviated CLM by people who've watched one happen.
Heard in the wild
“Correcting the founder's math in the board meeting was a textbook CLM.”
Tone check: Danger
The org never announces these; trajectories just flatten. Deliver hard truths privately, with options attached.