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Perfect Storm

Cliché Strategy Buzzword General

Multiple bad factors converging at once — the explanation of choice for disasters, since it distributes blame to the weather. Some storms are genuinely perfect; most had forecasts nobody read.

Heard in the wild

“Supply delays, flu season, and the ERP cutover — a perfect storm.”

Tone check: Cliché

Check whether each factor was foreseeable. 'Perfect storm' often translates to 'three ignored warnings, simultaneous.'

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