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When teams get stuck in circular decision-making

Our product team has been debating the same feature set for three months and everyone has strong opinions but we keep having circular discussions where people repeat their positions instead of actually listening to each other. I think we're all more invested in being right than in making a decision, and meanwhile our competitor just shipped something similar.

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Everyone cares more about being right than deciding, while a competitor ships ahead of you.

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