[VLM]

Manage your boss by not screwing up their OODA loop. Open your mouth at the Observe stage no matter if they want you to or not, don't distract them at the O and D stages, and make the best as fast as possible of their Act stage. Slowing down or sabotaging their O,D, or worst of all, A, makes you look like a problem and slows the loop cycle time making the likelihood of future bad O or D even higher while also pushing the correct A out while possibly cutting into future Observe stage available time, a quadruple lose-lose-lose-lose situation, which is impressive in its own way.

[awinter-py]

That model may work for fighter aces but it doesn't work for the office. In any project that takes more than a day you spend most of your time in the 'Act' stage and get a ton of new information before you finish executing.

Technical managers have to be sensitive to new information, * especially * when it ruins their spec.