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Re:Ask HN: Why do I struggle to follow corporate meetings? by dr_orpheus on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @01:57PM (#32004504)
I have also found that people use [strategic thing] as a way of keeping something at a higher level without going in to the details. Because once they get in to the details the grand plans start to break down.

I have been a part of a number of these high level strategy type efforts at my company. I have often found that I seem to be the cynical one against an onslaught of relentlessly optimistic people.

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Re:Ask HN: Why do I struggle to follow corporate meetings? by ethbr0 on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @04:17PM (#32006258)
One of the best planning exercises I've heard is asking every attendee to think of a way the suggested plan could go awry.

The genius is that failure scenarios are, by definition, detail-oriented.

Consequently, it's an easy bridge into the discussing the details that actually matter (i.e. those that could threaten the entire plan).

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Re:Ask HN: Why do I struggle to follow corporate meetings? by benji-york on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @04:52PM (#32006667)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-mortem
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Re:Ask HN: Why do I struggle to follow corporate meetings? by 121789 on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @09:59PM (#32009134)
Pre-mortems. In general I haven’t found them that useful as the teams/leads I’ve worked with generally have the risks covered already
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Re:Ask HN: Why do I struggle to follow corporate meetings? by ethbr0 on Thursday July 07, 2022 @02:10AM (#32010494)
They're more useful, the more disfunctional and rose colored glasses the org has.
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Re:Ask HN: Why do I struggle to follow corporate meetings? by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @02:14PM (#32004714)
"Everything is easy to the one who doesn't have to do it."
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