Huh. My Iron Triangle says "Fast | Good | Cheap - Pick two."
In all seriousness, I have found it is much better for me to push back on deadlines, especially those that are nothing short of arbitrary and imposed by middle/upper managers who have no understanding of the actual work involved. My results and reputation speak for themselves though and I can demonstrate that, historically speaking, I tend to produce higher quality output when I am given a blank check on time.
I would be a liar if I did not also admit that requires a healthy amount of discipline on my part and it took me years to develop that. I learned early on that the faster I complete my work, the more work I end up doing while my rewards do not increase, so moving fast is not a good strategy, to me. In fact, I work with a lot of people who have the "move fast and break things" mentality; not only are they arrogant bores that seem to only have a cursory understanding of their craft, but they leave insane messes that the rest of us have to clean up when they finally burn out.
In all seriousness, I have found it is much better for me to push back on deadlines, especially those that are nothing short of arbitrary and imposed by middle/upper managers who have no understanding of the actual work involved. My results and reputation speak for themselves though and I can demonstrate that, historically speaking, I tend to produce higher quality output when I am given a blank check on time.
I would be a liar if I did not also admit that requires a healthy amount of discipline on my part and it took me years to develop that. I learned early on that the faster I complete my work, the more work I end up doing while my rewards do not increase, so moving fast is not a good strategy, to me. In fact, I work with a lot of people who have the "move fast and break things" mentality; not only are they arrogant bores that seem to only have a cursory understanding of their craft, but they leave insane messes that the rest of us have to clean up when they finally burn out.
So yeah, I'll stick with picking two