A liberating-structures facilitation exercise: ask a team "if we were going to design this environment to have the absolute worst effects, what would we do?" Naming the failure mode indirectly gets teams to admit dysfunctions (e.g., off-hours Slack pings, punishing honesty) that they won't state when asked directly what's wrong.
Direct questions like "what's broken?" trigger self-censorship and political calculation. Asking teams to design deliberate sabotage removes the threat — people enjoy inventing villainy, and the villainy they invent is usually a description of the status quo.
Complements Black Mirror Episode Exercise (same inversion logic applied to product misuse rather than team environment) and Context Removal Reveals Suppressed Creativity (both rely on changing the frame to bypass suppressed honesty). Feeds into Making a Game: Co-Designed vs. Political Work Environments — a way to surface what the "actual game" being played currently rewards.
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