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Scenario

When teams enable avoidant behavior in high performers

Our engineering team has a brilliant architect who everyone respects but who shuts down in meetings when there's conflict and we've all learned to work around his silence instead of addressing it and now we make worse technical decisions because we're protecting his feelings.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The group has collectively chosen comfort over effectiveness, creating a system that diminishes everyone's capability.

Your guide for this
Aurelius
Aurelius works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
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Peri

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