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Anyone with skin in the game, even if they only ever attend meetings.
means A person or group affected by, or able to affect, a project, business, or decision.
from Born in 1700s gambling: the stakeholder was the neutral party who physically held the bet money until the wager settled, no skin in the outcome at all.
Original meaningHeld the money, wanted no part of it
Total reversalNow means the opposite: deeply invested
Corporate adoptionMainstreamed by 1980s management theory