Why does coordinating still leave me overwhelmed by politics?

You learned to coordinate. Meetings run, tasks get assigned, calendars align. And still you feel the same weight, because coordination was never the hard part. The hard part is that five people want five different things, and some of them want to look good more than they want the work done. You cannot fix this by getting better at scheduling. You are trying to solve a problem of other people's judgments using a tool built for logistics. That is why it doesn't work. Here is what is actually yours: your own priorities, stated clearly. Your own agreements, kept exactly. Your own silence, when someone else's politics is not your business to referee. Everything else — their ambition, their maneuvering, their competing agendas — belongs to them.