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Money Can Inspire Effort More Easily than InsightHow rethinking deadlines could save managers time and money
Managers may be overestimating the time it takes to complete a task—and overpaying contractors in the process.
A long deadline makes managers think a task is more involved.
Indranil Goswami and Oleg Urminsky, “More Time, More Work: How Non-diagnostic Time Limits Bias Estimates of Project Duration and Scope,” Working paper, March 2014.
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