Your manager has settled on an approach you're convinced will fail, and your one attempt to say so got a polite "noted". What do you do now?

The dilemma has no free move: pushing again risks the relationship, dropping it means watching a mistake happen. For candidates without much work history it still yields a scoreable answer, and the already-overruled setup blocks the rehearsed "I'd speak up" escape.

• What does a second attempt look like, concretely?
• When do you commit to their plan for real?
• Does it change if the failure lands on someone else?

A second, better-built attempt — new evidence or a different frame, not the same words louder — a named point where they commit and execute fully, and their concern registered without ceremony.

Silent compliance plus corridor complaints, escalation over the manager's head as the first move, or executing half-heartedly so the prediction comes true.