Ding ding ding. Welcome to the modern executive 101. If you are ever directly culpable, you aren't nudging well enough. You try to structure things around the

Ding ding ding. Welcome to the modern executive 101. If you are ever directly culpable, you aren't nudging well enough. You try to structure things around the peons to make them do that thing you want; but in a way responsibility never bubbles back to you. As a "peon", your moral job is to make that impossible by not tolerating hand waves, and pinning execs down into giving a clear, traceable, accountable order. Even if it makes them uncomfortable. If they aren't made uncomfortable, you aren't doing it hard enough.