How Much Is Changed to Serial Deadlines?

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i think that if we embrace deadlines, it's not the same thing as as embracing some sort of work aholic, work drudge mentality. It's actually an immovable, fixed, serial dead line that generates creativity,. i wondered if you could tell us a little bit about how much gets changed touh the serials eadlinesof a play. And really, like final dress rehearsal, when it comes to thinking about the development of the play, and the performance is more or less the end of the process.

The deadline is one of the most powerful tools we have for getting work done. So why are we all so afraid of it? After studying organizations that manipulate deadlines to their advantage, Christopher Cox (former chief editor of Harper's and executive editor of GQ) has figured out how to transform deadlines from something to be feared into a superpower to boost productivity and stimulate creativity. He’s bottled his findings in a new book called “The Deadline Effect: How to Work Like It's the Last Minute—Before the Last Minute,” and in this episode, he shares what he has learned with novelist Rivka Galchen.