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When teams argue about tactics to avoid strategy disagreements

Our product team keeps having the same argument about whether we're building for power users or mainstream adoption but framed as technical decisions so we never actually resolve the underlying strategy disagreement. We'll debate API complexity for two hours instead of admitting we have completely different visions for who this product serves and I'm exhausted by the proxy wars.

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Your team fights over technical details to avoid admitting you disagree on who the product is even for.

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