> Sales, legal, compliance, product (and HR and finance) all say yes to whatever an exec says This isn't true at all. Legal and compliance are literally paid t

> Sales, legal, compliance, product (and HR and finance) all say yes to whatever an exec says This isn't true at all. Legal and compliance are literally paid to say no to stuff (which does of course make the job of saying no easier). HR and Finance too, to a large extent. Sales are paid to say yes, but will still try as hard as possible to block anything that will hurt their performance figures/targets Though all of them tend to be better at converting their department's own technical details into the appropriate amount of intelligible detail, and making "no" sound more like "Great idea, but we can't" or "Maybe later" and less like "You should really understand our platform before you start having ideas"