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When your team avoids conflict and mistakes politeness for alignment

Our startup team of five has been working together for 18 months and we've never had a real fight, which sounds good except I think it means we're all just being polite instead of honest. Every decision feels like we're tiptoeing around each other and I'm worried we're building a company on top of things we're afraid to say.

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Your team is so polite that real disagreements never come out, and it worries you.

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