105 - Top Shelf Replay: How to Deal with Stupid Executive Asks

105 - Top Shelf Replay: How to Deal with Stupid Executive Asks

Ah, executives. They fund your project, cheer you on, and sometimes… ask for things that make you want to slam your head into your Gantt chart.

Like:

  • "The project's almost done—let's change everything!"

  • "I read about [X] in CIO Magazine—can we bolt that on?"

  • "Why are we doing it this way? Let's redo it completely differently… and badly."

In this Top Shelf Replay, we revisit the best parts of this classic episode, then Kate & Kim reflect on what they've learned since—especially now that they're the execs making the asks (hopefully less stupidly).

Oh, and yes—this is the episode where we try to talk Darth Vader out of building an infinity pool on the Death Star.

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126: "What's your AI Strategy?" Handling the Executive who wants AI in everything

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125: How to survive the AI landscape as a PM with PMI's Dr Kelly Heuer

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122 - Kate puts Kim through the worst meeting hells our listeners could dream up: a PM HappyHour role play

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121 - Top Shelf Replay: Embracing the Escalation

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120 - How smart teams talk themselves into Failure, with Dr. Bill Brantley

Why do smart teams still deliver failed projects? Most project failures don't begin with a catastrophic mistake. Instead, they begin with small deviations—minor compromises that seem harmless in the m...

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119 - TSR: They told me I'm 'too nice'??

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