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Scenario

How teams get trapped in unsustainable commitment cycles

Our team has this pattern where we commit to aggressive deadlines in client meetings because no one wants to be the person who says it can't be done, and then we spend the next month in crisis mode resenting each other and the client. We all participate in this but no one calls it out and I'm starting to think we're addicted to the drama of barely making it.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group has developed a shared delusion that prevents honest communication about capacity and realistic planning.

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