Our product team makes these elaborate quarterly plans that everyone knows are unrealistic but we all participate in the planning process anyway and then quietly adjust expectations as we go. I think we're all complicit in this performance but I don't know how to be the person who says the emperor has no clothes.
More people experience this than they realize.
Everyone knows the plan is unrealistic, but no one will say it out loud.
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