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deal-blocker-maneuvers

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Use this skill after any meaningful interaction on a complex deal — a call, a stakeholder meeting, a procurement exchange — when the question is not "what's missing" but "what do I actually run next week." Takes a qualification assessment (supplied, or scored here from primary evidence), reads it against what the deal's stage should already have proven rather than against an absolute bar, and converts the single worst blocker into a two-cycle maneuver the rep can save and execute: trigger conditions, a pre-mortem, a go/no-go checklist, a verbatim opening, IF/THEN counter-moves, and explicit abort criteria. Covers deal coaching, deal strategy, forecast defence, stalled and blocked deals, gone-dark champions, procurement stalls, third-party and partner blockers, deal reviews, and "this deal is stuck and I don't know why." Built for enterprise and complex deals; not for transactional velocity motions.

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# Deal blocker maneuvers

Runs after every meaningful interaction on a complex deal. Produces one saved artifact: a stage-adjusted read of the deal's qualification, a named primary blocker, and a two-cycle maneuver with abort criteria — plus a missing-information report listing exactly what nobody has asked yet.

This is the layer *after* diagnosis. Knowing that the economic buyer is unverified is not a plan; the plan is the specific move that verifies them, what you do when it backfires, and the condition under which you stop trying.

## Scope — where this works and where it does not

Built for **enterprise and complex deals**: multiple stakeholders, a real evaluation process, third parties or procurement in the path, months rather than days. That is where the eight dimensions all carry information and where a two-cycle maneuver is worth constructing.

**On transactional and high-velocity deals, the economics invert.** A two-call deal has no buying committee to segment, no paper process to map, and rarely a blocker that survives a single well-aimed question — the diagnostic overhead exceeds what the deal returns, and the output reads as bureaucracy to the rep. Below `{{COMPLEX_DEAL_FLOOR}}`, use whatever lighter qualification standard your team already runs; the evidence rule below is still worth borrowing, but the rest of this is built for a different shape of deal.

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