The apex moment of over-engineered accountability culture — when RACI thinking reaches its most absurd, self-defeating extreme.
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The act of applying RACI accountability matrices to every possible situation to an absurd degree — going maximum-effort on organizational clarity long past the point of usefulness or sanity. Someone RACI maxxing has built nested RACI charts for their personal goals, their Netflix watchlist, and their own internal decision-making process. It is the ultimate expression of corporate-brained optimization that has fully escaped its professional context and colonized everyday life.
Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed. A matrix specifying who does what on a project. Deeply corporate; occasionally useful. "Someone make a RACI before this goes sideways" is the cry of every PM watching a multi-team project drift. The matrix is half discipline, half performance art.
Deeply, irreversibly converted to the RACI framework as a life philosophy. Someone who is RACI pilled believes every conflict, relationship, and home task could be resolved with a clean accountability matrix. They've swallowed the corporate pill so fully they genuinely cannot comprehend why anyone would start a project — or a road trip — without first defining who owns what. Productivity Twitter and LinkedIn thought-leaders run at peak RACI-pilled energy.
The apex moment of over-engineered accountability culture — when RACI thinking reaches its most absurd, self-defeating extreme. Peak RACI is the all-hands where someone presents a 47-column accountability matrix for deciding what font to use in the company newsletter. It's the point at which a useful tool has become a parody of itself, and everyone in the room can see it except the person presenting. Often invoked as a knowing acknowledgment between colleagues that things have gotten truly out of hand.
They made us fill out a RACI for the holiday party planning — we have reached peak raci.
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