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Scenario

When engineering partners avoid confronting fundamental design flaws

My engineering partner and I have been developing this new aircraft control system for eighteen months and we both know the current design has a fundamental flaw that would require starting over, but neither of us wants to be the one to say it because we're both terrified of losing our funding. We keep making incremental changes that don't address the core issue and I can see us heading toward a demo that's going to fail spectacularly.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people are trapped in a shared delusion about their project's viability because the truth threatens their professional survival.

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“Where Are You with Engineering — Mechanical & Aerospace?”

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