Say no to good ideas without sounding anti-progress
Decline a good idea by explaining the trade-off rather than judging the idea as bad.
Hook The hardest idea to refuse is not the bad one. It is the good one that arrives while three better commitments are already underfunded. Teach Prioritization is not a search for bad ideas to reject. It is a discipline for protecting the few good ideas that can actually win. When you say no to a good idea, the mistake is making the idea defend its worth. That creates a debate you may not need. Instead, show the constraint: current goal, capacity, time window, and opportunity cost. RICE is helpful here because it lets you say, 'This is useful, but…
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