My team lead and I both know our project is six months behind and likely to fail but we keep having these optimistic check-ins where we pretend small improvements mean we're on track. Neither of us wants to be the one to say it's not working, and now we're presenting fake progress to executives while privately panicking.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are collaborating in a fiction that protects them from immediate consequences while ensuring eventual catastrophe.
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