The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment.
Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That's what management is all about.
The manager's function is not to make people work, but to make it possible for people to work.
There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.
First law of Bad Management: If something isn't working, do more of it.
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.