I laid out the deadline clearly, and it slid by again, and I said nothing. I always say nothing. My team has figured out that what I call an expectation is really just a suggestion. What I ask for and what I actually put up with are two different things, and they know it.
More people experience this than they realize.
You set clear expectations but never enforce them, so they've become mere suggestions.
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