Answer The Hard Question
Answer a risk question with composure, specificity, mitigation, and trigger point.
Mei must answer 'What are you most worried about?' in a strategy review. The true risk is vendor certification timing, but an imprecise answer will either create anxiety or sound like she has not thought deeply enough. Use risk, exposure, mitigation, and trigger. This applies Hewlett's gravitas pillar by facing the hard fact, and the communication pillar by giving the room a clean decision path. Not quite: saying 'vendor timing is something we are watching' sounds calm but is too vague to create trust. The room cannot tell size, consequence, or when Mei will act. That violates the mechanism of…
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