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When teams can't sit with failure

Our startup team has this ritual where we celebrate every small win with the same enthusiasm, but when someone brings up concerns or failures, there's this immediate shift to problem-solving mode that shuts down any real discussion about what went wrong or what we're learning.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Your team jumps to fixing things instead of ever really talking about what went wrong.

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