> Telling stakeholders a longer timeline than necessary I understand what you mean, but this only creates a escalation problem. Everybody has to lie to get any

> Telling stakeholders a longer timeline than necessary I understand what you mean, but this only creates a escalation problem. Everybody has to lie to get anything done. So, it is impossible to know if the decisions taken in the company are reasonable or not. I guess that this behavior makes sense if everybody up the ladder are themselves lying. > taking the bullet from execs I guess that this is part of the same type of company. Where execs punish mistakes, like if mistakes were not part of your job. I have seen such companies driven by fear and the irony of it is that everybody is unhappy and mistakes are repeated again and again as the goal is just o hide them not to learn from it. > The manager you don't want throws you under the bus, over promises and demands crunch, takes the credit for your work. Equally sneaky, but selfish. I guess that this is the manager that ends being promoted to be an exec and creates a new cycle of unreason, pain and lack of productivity.