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Scenario

When teams go through the motions of collaboration

Our engineering team has this thing where we'll spend three hours debating architecture decisions and then our senior engineer will just implement whatever they wanted anyway, and everyone knows this pattern but we keep playing along with the charade of collaborative decision-making. I'm starting to feel like we're all complicit in this weird theater.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group has developed a ritual of false consensus that protects everyone's ego while slowly eroding trust and genuine engagement.

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

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