Our startup team has this pattern where we'll have intense strategy sessions where everyone contributes ideas but then the two co-founders go off and make the real decisions in private conversations later. The rest of us have started to notice this and it's creating this weird dynamic where we're performing engagement in meetings while knowing our input doesn't actually matter.
More people experience this than they realize.
You're expected to act engaged in meetings when the real decisions get made without you.
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