STRATEGIC-PLANNING5 MIN READ
Dialogue: A Functional Head Pushes Back on Catchball
Use Hoshin logic to explain why catchball is not bureaucracy but deployment quality.
Darius D operations chief A Acknowledge M Mechanism B Bound the ask The moment 20 sec Catchball sounds like bureaucracy Darius says, "I do not need another planning ritual. Just tell me the target and I will run the operation." If you lose this moment, the strategy will cascade as a number rather than a shared logic. The framework 1 min Hoshin deployment quality Acknowledge the speed concern -> explain the cost of bad translation -> ask for a bounded output
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