The organization’s culture has created and, paradoxically, rewarded an attitude of self-preservation, competitiveness, and unwillingness to be truthful. In this situation, the project manager faces the pressure of getting the project done as quickly as possible. By subordinating everything to the need for speed, the project manager sends out the message that she only wants to hear good news. The subordinates’ pressures are different. If they are likely to be punished for missing their target estimates for the project, they will naturally over-inflate those initials estimates to give themselves sufficient time to complete the assignment. It now becomes a game between the subordinate and the project manager in which neither is willing to provide authentic information to the other.