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Scenario

When teams enable unrealistic expectations through heroic effort

My engineering team keeps saying yes to impossible deadlines and then working heroic hours to hit them and leadership thinks this is just how we operate and I'm tired of being part of a system that rewards dysfunction but I don't know how to break the cycle without letting everyone down.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Collective overperformance has created sustainable dysfunction by teaching the organization that impossible demands are actually possible.

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