Solve your hardest problem from a seat that isn't yours.

1. Draw a seat

   Everyone draws a seat card at random: the skeptical CFO, the paranoid CISO, the burned-out SRE, the wary end customer. If you draw your real job, you redraw.

2. Work a real problem

   Each table picks one problem and argues it from the seats they drew, under a constraint that forces tradeoffs. You cannot have everything, so you have to choose.

3. Shuffle and stress-test

   One owner stays with the table's work. Everyone else moves to a new table and tries to break what that group built.

4. Harvest

   Tables share what surprised them and the moderator names the patterns. Everyone leaves with one question for their own team, and one peer who will follow up in 30 days.

Why it works for senior leaders. Experienced leaders often suffer from expert blindness. Playing a seat lowers the defenses: nobody is being corrected by a peer, they are playing a role that lets them see their own blind spots.