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May 01, 2026

Here's this week's SMDP Mentor Moment
Planning fallacy

A lot of us are good planners. We have always been able to look at our calendars, estimate how long something will take, factor in our experience and then confidently commit. And yet somehow, especially on big projects, deadlines are missed, work drags on, and we sometimes find ourselves apologizing for delays we genuinely did not expect. This gap between what we planned and what actually happened is not a mystery. It is a predictable pattern that repeats itself again and again, even for experienced professionals.

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