One other way of reining in such a manager in is to bring someone in the meeting who the manager trusts and who you too have good rapport with, and have them sa

One other way of reining in such a manager in is to bring someone in the meeting who the manager trusts and who you too have good rapport with, and have them say the same points that you would have made otherwise. Effectively a form of trust and reputation arbitrage, but it was effective for dealing with a particularly difficult manager who didn’t accept certain things about the design of an API, and yet when the other guy told him the same things, he just asked a few mild follow ups and accepted what I was telling him all along.