Inkompetenzkompensationskompetenz

A genuine German compound noun meaning the competence to compensate for incompetence. Every meeting you have ever sat through, in a single unpronounceable word.

Nobody can read it aloud on the first attempt, and everybody tries. The full range, in every format we make it in, all printed to order as you buy it. Sixteen syllables of bureaucratic self-awareness, worn without apology.