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How to navigate crisis management when leadership partners avoid difficult conversations together

My assistant superintendent and I have been managing this budget crisis by splitting up the hard conversations so we don't have to be in the room together when people get angry, but now we're getting different versions of the same story from everyone and we can't make good decisions anymore.

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You and your co-leader split up the hard talks to avoid each other, and now you can't tell what's really going on.

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