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When your team keeps committing to unrealistic deadlines

Our team has this pattern where we commit to ambitious deadlines in client meetings and then immediately start negotiating with each other about what's actually possible, and I realize I'm part of the problem because I stay quiet in those meetings even when I know the timeline is unrealistic. We're all complicit in this cycle but no one wants to be the person who disappoints the client.

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You stay quiet in meetings while your team promises clients deadlines everyone knows can't be met.

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