“I don’t think my team is ready,” Ellis warned me.

“How so?” I asked.

“This new project landed in our queue this week with an impossible deadline,” he explained, hoping his explanation would let him off the hook.

“And?”

“I told the team that we could either choose to be successful in this project or we could choose not, it was up to them.”

“Do you think the team can suddenly decide success, or is success, or failure, determined by the decisions and choices that have already been made?”