[Behavioral] Tell me about a time you recovered a project without having full authority.

Instruction: Answer this as a recovery story where you had to improve a project without direct control over all the people involved.

Context: Assesses whether the candidate can lead recovery through influence, clarity, and coordination rather than positional power.

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I took over a project where the biggest problem wasn't lack of effort. It was that different teams were working from different assumptions, and nobody had stitched the full delivery picture together. I didn't have direct authority over most of the people involved, so I knew the recovery had to come from clarity and coordination rather than hierarchy.

I mapped the dependencies more honestly, highlighted where...

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