There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.
The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment.
If nothing is declared unchangeable, then the organization will resist all change.
Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day.
The manager's function is not to make people work, but to make it possible for people to work.
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.