You're a project manager on a six-week diagnostic. Your senior partner calls from a flight: the client CFO just told him their audit committee is meeting in four days and wants preliminary findings, not the three-week interim you planned. Walk me through how you replan tonight.

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Stay specific. One example, told well, beats three told fast. Make your decisions visible — what you chose between. End on what changed, for whom.

You're a project manager on a six-week diagnostic. Your senior partner calls from a flight: the client CFO just told him their audit committee is meeting in four days and wants preliminary findings, not the three-week interim you planned. Walk me through how you replan tonight.

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