In forced deals, you’ll hear a lot of soft language:

• “We’re comfortable.”
• “We understand the risks.”
• “The buyer has a plan.”
• “It should work.”

Comfort is not mitigation.

Mitigation is specific:

• What risk are we taking?
• What is the plan?
• What will it cost?
• How long will it take?
• What happens if the plan fails?

Forced deals tend to avoid specificity because specificity invites the one thing momentum can’t tolerate:

Hard questions.

When discipline dies, vague confidence takes its place.

That’s where value gets destroyed—slowly, quietly, and predictably.