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职场秘籍：如何对付不合理的工作期限 If you find yourself constantly struggling to meet impossible deadlines at work, it’s worth stepping back and taking a different approach to the problem. Here are six strategies that might help you cope. 　　倘若工作中的你一直苦于手忙脚乱应对各种各样不可能完成的期限，那么，是时候停下脚步去寻求解决问题的另一种方法了，这里介绍了六种可能对你会有帮助的策略。 　　1. Look at your colleagues. 　　If you have colleagues who do similar work, do they also face similar deadlines? If so, how do they meet them? Are they starting earlier, planning differently, pulling in additional help, or using any other strategies that you can copy? 　　1.环顾一下你的同事。 　　如果有同事和你做类似的工作，看一看他们也面临这相似的期限吗？如果答案是肯定的，看他们是如何处理的？是开始的早呢，还是计划有所不同？是引进了外援，还是使用了其他你可以参考的策略？ 　　2. Break the project down differently. 　　Often much of a project—say, 85 percent—can be accomplished quickly, and it抯 the remaining 15 percent that will take much longer. It抯 worth asking if you can take longer with that more time-consuming 15 percent. Sometimes if you ask you抣l discover that as long as you get certain pieces of the work done by the deadline, it抯 OK to take longer on other parts. 　　2.把整块项目分成不同部分。 　　一个项目通常有85%的工作是可以迅速完成的，而另外的15%可能会相对需要多花些时间。那么这时值得你请示上司是否可以为那15%多花些时间。通常请示后你就会发现只要在期限前完成工作的一部分，你就可以有更多时间完成其他的部分了。 　　3. Tell your manager what you can do. 　　Your manager doesn’t want to just be told that you can’t meet a deadline without getting some indication of what you could do. Instead of just saying a deadline is impossible, try saying something like, “With only 10 days, I can do X and Y, and I’ll need to modify Z in the following days. And we won’t have finished fully testing it, but that could be wrapped up two days later. Would that work?” 　　3.告诉你的上司哪些是你可以完成的。 　　告诉你的经理你能做什么，他可不想只听到你告诉他你没法在截止日期前完成工作。你应该给他些提示让他知道你能做什么。不要总是说在截止日前完成工作不可能之类的话，试试说点别的，比方说：“10天的时间，我可以完成甲和乙，接着我需要调试丙，但是10天之内不能完成对丙的测试工作，但如果再有两天时间的话，肯定能完成。这样你看怎么样？” 　　4. If the problem is chronic, raise it as a big-picture issue. 　　Aside from talking with your manager about deadlines for a specific project, make sure you address