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Saying No Is Twice as Safe as Saying Yes | JL Heather on the Can't Culture Killing Your Best Ideas
JL Heather has a name for the thing that kills a good idea before anyone notices it died. He calls it can't culture. Not a person saying no, a system saying it for them. Twelve approvals that take six months. A budget objection, a pay grade objection, a resourcing objection, all of them sounding perfectly reasonable on the way out of someone's mouth. Nobody ever makes the decision to kill the project. It just never survives the trip. Underneath it is omission bias. Put your name on a ten million dollar bet and the downside is career limiting. Say nothing and your name is on nothing, even when…
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