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Kickoff meetings are supposed to set the tone for a project. But the “perfect kickoff” doesn’t exist—and chasing it can actually set you up for failure.

Project managers spend entire careers translating messy reality into repeatable routines — yet most of us were never shown how to turn half-formed thoughts into diagrams that coworkers instantly “get.” Abby Covert’s Stuck? Diagrams Help. unlocked that muscle for me, and pairing her principles with generative-AI tools has taken it even further. I can now dump a tangle of ideas into ChatGPT, request a Mermaid flowchart, and watch opaque discussions collapse into a single pictur