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Communication & influence · Persuasion under skepticism

A restricted substance forces you to reformulate a product a customer has qualified into their process for eight years. Their procurement lead assumes any change means requalification cost and risk, and starts against you. How do you move them?

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I acknowledge the thing they're bracing for before they say it: yes, this touches a qualified spec, and requalification is real work I'm not going to wave away.

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