Deadline Without Consent: A Capital-First Playbook for Delivering Projects Through the Stakeholder Stack

This manuscript is written for pragmatic project delivery in real organisations. All case studies are anonymised and written as composites or de-identified narratives. Any resemblance to specific organisations is coincidental.
Working premise: deadlines are often approved before commitment is earned. When that happens, teams either perform optimism theatre or burn Human Capital. This book shows a third option: make the gap visible and close it with deliberate capital choices.