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I have been surprised by what I can do under a deadline I was committed to<\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Of course, I need to pay extra attention to\u00a0how<\/i> I’m getting things done. I don’t sacrifice something crucial to finish on time.<\/span><\/p>\n And it is that urgency to identify\u00a0what is crucial<\/em> that leads to greater insight and performance.<\/span><\/p>\n To relate this to Multipliers<\/a> by Liz Wiseman, the best managers challenge their talented workers to achieve beyond their own beliefs of capacity. Wouldn’t timeline be crucial to creating that challenge? (See Bernstein above: a plan and not enough time<\/em>.)<\/p>\n Read more of Wiseman’s book to see how she differentiates between “intense” (good) and “tense” (bad). Not all deadlines will lead to great performance.<\/p>\n Still, rather than shy away from deadlines because some can be bad we should ask ourselves how we can use them to challenge<\/em> ourselves and our organization.<\/p>\n I could write on this for at least another twenty minutes. But my family has already left for the block party and I have a self imposed deadline to get this done before I leave for the evening.<\/p>\n Sure, blowing that deadline might lead to a better post eventually, but in the meantime I’m delivering\u00a0no value<\/em> while I polish away.<\/p>\n Being expected to get it done well\u00a0and quickly is a key differentiator between a professional and an amateur. Is this your craft, or a hobby?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have been surprised by what I can do under a deadline I was committed to.\u00a0 Of course, I need to pay extra attention to\u00a0how I’m getting things done. I don’t sacrifice something crucial to finish on time. And it is that urgency to identify\u00a0what is crucial that leads to greater insight and performance. To… Continue reading Deadlines Are Good<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[79,39,80],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-executive","tag-deadlines","tag-performance-management","tag-tasking","wow fadeInUp","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419,"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}