The most direct leadership intervention in meetings that works is to ask a question and define the answer type “Is the project on track? The answer is yes / no” “When will this get shipped? The answer is a date” “How many orders will we achieve by month end? The answer is a number” Keep doing that till team members get a sense of starting with a definite answer, add caveats / nuances later, and learn narrative building for future successful meetings. Tolerating hand-wavy blah blah answers wastes time for everyone in the meeting and derails good decision making
This is a classic example of oversimplifying real world situations!
Chief Technology Officer at Concerto.ai
4moFunny enough, today I was in a cyber crime conference by Karnataka Police. One of the speakers suggested to do exactly opposite in legal courts. For example, if a lawyer asks you - can two files have the same hash value, the real answer is yes. It is possible mathematically but if you say that in a court of law, it can be used to reduce the importance of the digital evidence.