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Tell me a time when you missed a deadline

Tell me a time when you missed a deadline

We often run multiple projects with multiple deadlines. Missing a crucial deadline is bad for business and it impacts the business as well our performance.
We need to find innovative ways to make up any time loss and avoid the disaster.
Tell about a project, the circumstances and how you kept the internal stakeholders informed. Tell about the actions you initiated to mitigate the risk.
Do's
• Show how you monitor the project
• How you kept your stakeholders and the boss informed
• Tell about the actions you took to mitigate
• Share the lessons learnt
Don'ts
• No, I am perfect and i never miss any deadline
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The mistakes we make in our everyday life

• We are hardwired to make these mistakes • Few biases are simply evolutionary • These errors affect all of us including the bright ones • Experience is just not enough to overcome • but expertise is required to recognize and overcome

Few of biases as below · Anchoring - When an individual depends too heavily on an initial piece of information during decision making · Fixed pie - When we assume that our interests conflict with the other party's interests and we play adversarial · Framing - When we decide on our options differently when the options are presented with positive or negative connotations · Vividness – When we pay attention to strong features at the expense of less, that could be more impactful · Over confidence – When our subjective confidence is greater than the objective accuracy · Escalation – When initial decision is followed up with an irrational decision to justify the initial decision

Few ways to mitigate these biases are · Learn to recognize the bias · Use slow, effortful and logical thinking (System 2) · Avoid fast, automatic and effortless thinking (System 1) · Avoid negotiations which are thrust upon when not ready · Learn through use of stories, examples, exercises · Bring an outsider perspective