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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.

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Your team keeps pulling off the impossible, so now leadership expects it every time.

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