Use battlecards to introduce inversion without creating defensiveness.
They say: “Let’s not be negative.” A plan review where risk talk is unwelcome You say Agreed. This is the optimistic version: we remove the one preventable failure before it costs us. Listing every possible risk and proving their concern right. It frames inversion as protection of the goal, not opposition to it. They say: “We already have a plan.” The plan has tasks but no failure checks Great. Let’s add the failure path: if this slips, which dependency most likely caused it and who owns it today? Restarting the whole planning process. It adds a safeguard without invalidating work…
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