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Scenario

When teams perform improvement instead of actually improving

Our product team has this ritual where we do retrospectives every sprint but we only ever surface safe problems and I realized last week that we've created this whole performance of continuous improvement while the actual dysfunctions just get deeper. Everyone participates but nobody says what's actually broken.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group has unconsciously agreed to simulate the work of getting better rather than do it.

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

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