This is what I imagine happening in Comolli's office:
Senior manglement: Do X
Comolli:
"Sorry I don’t understand. Can you forward me your notes and an executive summary so I can shoot it up the chain? Pop something in my diary so we can discuss and then I’ll circle back once I have an answer from the C-Suite on that view. Then, after we draft up a response paper, can you put some notes into a dozen or so slides, chuck together some minutes, and I’ll talk to Francois so he can book John in on our thoughts.
Once he’s across it we just need to brief the team on our view, put their responses in a spreadsheet and summarise the feel in the room, sense check that with the group seniors, put that into the draft PowerPoint once it’s got feedback from the relevant senior stakeholders, and finally put it into the next quarterly meeting for the executive. Once they approve it’ll just be a matter of you getting the top line info into a presentation and touring it around the various monthly team updates so everyone’s across it and making sure you monitor feedback with a bi-weekly checkin for the first six months."