MBC

"If you can't convince them, confuse them"

MBC is Management By Confusion.
It's a great tool in the CYA (Cover your a***) category. When you are not prepared for a meeting but you need to speak up to make your presence felt, MBC comes to your rescue. You talk and create confusion and call for a next round of meeting.

There's a lot of MBC going on recently where I work. Since there is no clear direction from the senior management as yet, the middle level managers are all going berserk. They are doing things which doesn't justify their actions and creating more trouble.

The other way of looking at MBC is when the person quoting MBC is stupid to not understand what is being done or said. For him, he is totally lost as he doesn't get the direction and feels others are creating confusion.

If someone says there is MBC happening, either he is right or he does not have the full picture.