How do you handle it when people try and force their Type A tasks (I.e. detailed project plans, unnecessary review cycles, notes/action tracking, etc.) on you when you strongly feel that it’s not necessary

These are internal peers or close-to peers

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Just because you don't think it's necessary doesn't mean the client doesn't think it's necessary.

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All of those things are necessary to mitigate risk. If you don't want to do them then you should accept all of the risk.

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Ask what's truly essential - generally there's a smaller logical ask and you can just deliver that. Eg

- Detailed project plans -> key milestones with major stakeholders
- Unnecessary review cycles -> giving them the core analysis for feedback
- Notes/action tracking -> key takeaways and major next steps

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Say no.

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What are the contract deliverables? These are typical deliverables for any professionally run project and are defined in your proposal, which then is an attachment to the contract. You are a manager. You should know this.
If you don’t, then there are bigger issues with your leadership.

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Set up a call and get off fishbowl

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If you are a management consultant this is your job

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You have to keep things moving around their tasks. If they aren’t critical tasks, you don’t have to factor the non-critical tasks into milestones and it won’t impact anything

Normally it's pointing towards a broader issue - eg lack of clarity of direction, milestones and path to success. Creating those artefacts is useless if the underlying concern not addressed

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