the.com/manageability
The art of making chaos look like it was always under control.
means The degree to which something — a workload, a crisis, a toddler — can actually be handled without everyone falling apart.
from Built from 'manage,' which traces back through French 'ménager' to Latin 'manus,' meaning hand — the same root behind 'manual' and 'manipulate.' Originally 'manage' meant literally handling a horse, training it to obey the rein. The abstract sense of running a household or business grew out of that, and 'manageability' is the 19th/20th-century noun form asking: can this be kept on a rein at all, or will it bolt?
- corporate favorite
- Used to justify any reorg, ever
- inverse law
- Demanding it usually signals you have none
- true test
- Works fine until someone actually leaves