Nice note...

There's an old saying in consulting which basically goes like this: there are three factors you can impact in a project: scope, time and resources, choose any two. As a client, you get to define any two of the three factors, and the third one will be basically dictated to you.

Nice one, Applies to most types of projects.

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Zen of management. You can tell others about your pain, you can express your needs in eloquent language, you can scream about how important your pain is. None of that really works all that well. What does work is to set expectations, goals and compensation of the people who work for you in line with what's important to you.