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When teams fight about small things to avoid addressing larger tensions

Our product team agrees on all the big strategic stuff but we're constantly fighting about tiny implementation details and it's making everyone miserable. The fights feel disproportionate to what we're actually disagreeing about and I think something else is going on but I can't figure out what.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You and your team fight over tiny details, and you suspect it is really about something bigger no one will name.

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