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Scenario

How expertise can undermine peer group dynamics

Our founder's cohort has been meeting for two years and one person dominates every conversation and everyone else has started checking out but we all keep showing up and no one wants to be the person who calls it out because he's actually a really successful entrepreneur and maybe we're supposed to just listen to him.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The group has confused competence in one domain with authority over group process, allowing dysfunction to persist under the guise of respecting expertise.

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