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Sure, I agree, politely explaining what went wrong is good. Just saying "I told you so" (or similar) is different, though, and doesn't provide any actionable information. But I get the motivation to say it, so I suggest just saying it internally to let off some steam.

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Sometimes you have to highlight that specific people were wrong before, particularly in a power imbalance.

Unfortunately, most organizations don’t do distributed meritocratic decision making. The hierarchical structure is often a key component of the failure lattice, and it’s attributes and effects need to be confronted directly.

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