| The pressure to meet a
deadline is one of the most stressful ways to get people to do a job by
a certain date or time.
A much better way to take a deadline and reach it
without stress is to consider the period of time available, and allocate
that time to the task. Ie Change the term from “by date x”, to
“within the next x days”.
This creates the feeling that you have all of
that time to do it, rather than, I have to get it done by…
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