> Procrastinators [...] may have poor time management skills, often underestimating the time required to complete tasks. > Make them accountable for those dead

> Procrastinators [...] may have poor time management skills, often underestimating the time required to complete tasks. > Make them accountable for those deadlines. I've seen this advice a lot, and it's a terrible approach. You've got a team member you already know has bad time management or bad prioritization skills, and/or busted estimates. You've already stuck them in the bucket so it's not your first rodeo. You already know they're not just unmotivated, because you'd take a completely different approach otherwise. That's were comes the interesting part: you're either punishing them for something they're motivated to do but aren't good at, and you couldn't find a way to help them the first few times (they still got late despite all the micro management you did). Or you're punishing them for deadlines that you knew were busted but didn't adjust on your part, even as the whole project is affected by that decision. You should be the one accountable for that.