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When teams adapt around one member's dysfunction instead of addressing it

Our project team has one person who consistently overpromises on timelines and the rest of us have started padding our own estimates to compensate, but we've never actually addressed the underlying issue with them directly. Now our whole planning process is built around working around this one person's optimism.

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Your whole team works around one person's bad estimates instead of just talking to them.

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