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When leadership teams create echo chambers by avoiding dissent

My leadership team promotes people who agree with us and sidelines people who push back and we all participate in this but no one will name it. I think we're actually afraid of our own people and that's why we've surrounded ourselves with yes-people and now we make terrible decisions because no one challenges us.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You've surrounded yourself with people who only agree, and now nobody tells you the truth you need.

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