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When your team refuses to acknowledge mortality in work planning

Our team keeps pushing deadlines and working like we have infinite runway but three people have had health scares this year and nobody will acknowledge that maybe we should work differently knowing that any of us could be gone tomorrow. Everyone just says 'that's dramatic' when mortality comes up.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group maintains unsustainable practices by collectively denying the reality of human fragility.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Time and mortality — death as clarifying force?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.