About 95% of deadlines can be adjusted
Deadlines are not nearly as intractable or set in stone as we think.
I've written about the idea of deadlines maybe once or twice before -- here and here come to mind -- but as I've gotten older and worked with more people, it's something I've understood less and less. Let me outline a few quick things here:
The Friday Deadline: This I perhaps understand least of all. If it's Friday 11am, I maybe get it a little bit more.…
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