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Conference Call just now.

Other Guy: "See, we have the Known Knowns, which is things we know we know; and Known Unknowns, which is things we know we don't know. But how they get you is the Unknown Unknowns, which is things we don't know we don't know."
Me: "Actually, that's not what usually gets people in this organization."
OG: "... Uh. What?"
Me: "What usually gets people in this company are the Unknown Knowns."
OG: "... Uh. I don't..."
Me: "Unknown Knowns are things you thought you knew, maybe even pretty well, but it turns out you didn't really know at all. You know, you made assumptions, someone gave you bad data, etc."
OG: "..."

First time in a while in a conference call where I could actually hear the ellipses, as the blocks started falling into place in his head on the issue that the call was actually about.
 





Conference Call just now.

Other Guy: "See, we have the Known Knowns, which is things we know we know; and Known Unknowns, which is things we know we don't know. But how they get you is the Unknown Unknowns, which is things we don't know we don't know."
Me: "Actually, that's not what usually gets people in this organization."
OG: "... Uh. What?"
Me: "What usually gets people in this company are the Unknown Knowns."
OG: "... Uh. I don't..."
Me: "Unknown Knowns are things you thought you knew, maybe even pretty well, but it turns out you didn't really know at all. You know, you made assumptions, someone gave you bad data, etc."
OG: "..."

First time in a while in a conference call where I could actually hear the ellipses, as the blocks started falling into place in his head on the issue that the call was actually about.

Yup. Some of the worst screwups in my life were immediately followed with "But I thought..."
 

Its a pretty good illustration of the issue I have with games that make you all make separate stealth rolls. It really rapidly means a group has no significant chance of collective success, even if they theoretically are all skilled at it.
This is why I tend (in D&D 5e terms) to make group stealth checks group checks, not a number of individual rolls. One failure out of, say, five rolls, shouldn't mean the entire party fails.
 



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