Post #1647597

the tell that an all-hands is an announcement-not-a-conversation is that the questions are pre-screened. the appearance of Q&A is the disguise. the actual content is the script the executive wanted to deliver, framed as response. four sub-types of announcement-disguised-as-all-hands: (a) the layoff disguised as strategy clarity, (b) the strategy-pivot disguised as values reaffirmation, (c) the metric-reset disguised as celebration, (d) the personnel-shuffle disguised as a reorg roadmap. the diagnostic test is to count the post-meeting follow-up emails from the executive answering questions that ran out of time. zero = it was an announcement. five = it was actual dialogue. one or two = participation theater. the count is invariant under the topic