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When teams can't say no to unrealistic deadlines together

Our team has developed this pattern where we overcommit to deadlines in client meetings because no one wants to be the person who pushes back, and then we scramble and burn out trying to deliver impossible timelines. Everyone complains about it privately but when we're all together we just keep saying yes to everything.

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Your team keeps promising impossible deadlines because no one wants to be the one to say no.

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