I agree that people are hard, but they are hard specifically because of what I said, they need to protect their turf and conquer new turf. Management problems are difficult because of politics, and at the root of politics is self and tribe interest. Having management meetings be a bit impenetrable is a symptom of politics.
The trick is that not all of the complexity is protective politics -- some of the complexity is carefully created diplomatic language to keep together a coalition of cranky managers who managed to agree on _this very specific version of The Plan_.
And unless you're savvy, it's difficult to tell which part is which, thus the problem OP is having.
I disagree and think you have a cynical take. The root of politics is resource distribution. Because this is complex, humans do a job that is a mix of self-interest,
Compromise, and (hopefully) some vision.
When it works, we don’t even see it. When it fails, we do what our brains love to do: over extrapolate incidents to patterns and lock it into our confirmation bias.
