[Stakeholders] What do you do when the business says the project is urgent but will not provide timely inputs?

Instruction: Answer this as a project-management problem where stakeholder urgency is not matched by delivery support.

Context: Assesses whether the candidate can expose urgency gaps between words and behavior.

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When that happens, I try to make the gap visible without sounding sarcastic or frustrated. If the business says the project is urgent but critical inputs are late, the project needs to see that those two things are in conflict. So I would identify exactly what inputs are missing, what they affect, and how the delay changes...

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