More often than not, when I tried to employ the strategy explained in the post, the sunk-cost people would try to shut me down. Fortunately my current project

More often than not, when I tried to employ the strategy explained in the post, the sunk-cost people would try to shut me down. Fortunately my current project is different, because the team is very small and we have silos of responsibility, so we don't really get in each other's way that much. It appears that the largest obstacle here is not the lack of ability, but agency.