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I've found "I presented this project to partners in Risk, Cyber, Compliance, and Legal and received no objection." is quite effective.

People in a large company want to know you're working with the right set of people and that nobody is going to be surprised. At some point if a large enough set of people have seen a project and are aware without objection, folks don't want to try to "push back the tide" and a thing will achieve momentum of its own.

"Gosh if Wendy and Bob and Jill are all okay with this...ehh sure."



I’m reminded of an infamous occasion when this technique was used: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_243#Preparation




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