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When teams struggle to align on realistic versus ambitious timelines

Our startup team is stuck between the investors demanding aggressive timelines and our own sense that we need to build something sustainable. Half of us are operating in crisis mode trying to hit impossible deadlines while the other half want to slow down and do things right, and we can't seem to find a timeline we all believe in.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group caught between external temporal pressures and internal wisdom about sustainable pace cannot locate shared hope in any timeline.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Hope as temporal orientation?”

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