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When teams exclude difficult but valuable members

Our engineering team of eight has someone who consistently pushes back on every decision in a way that feels more about being right than about making things better, and the rest of us have started making decisions without including them, which isn't fair but also isn't sustainable. We've created two tiers of involvement.

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You've started leaving a difficult teammate out of decisions, and you know it's not fair.

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