When you'll miss a deadline, re-promise a realistic new one before the original time passes. If you were supposed to deliver to Catherine by noon and she promised it to someone else, breaking that chain breaks their plans too. Tell people early, give them a real date.
That looks like what Catherine was pointing to as soon as you know you can't, you know, I said I'd have it by noon today. I'm not gonna have it by noon today. I'm having it by 5 today. Now there's still integrity. You're still honoring your word. You just didn't keep the original word, but you didn't let 12 o'clock go by and everybody who was counting on something at 12, 'cause as you'll find as you play bigger games, If I give a promise to Catherine for something by 12, she's most likely given her word to somebody else for something by 2 that needed that thing by 12. So if I just like blow off the 12, then that's the whole ripple chain of, you know, so sometimes you also, if you're going to re-promise your word, you gotta deal with, are there any consequences to you not honoring your original word?
So we'll keep bringing this context to all of you 'cause we're doing some really big projects with all of you.
