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When teams mistake conflict avoidance for good teamwork

Our startup team of five has been working together for two years and we've never had a real conflict, which sounds good except I think it means we're all conflict-avoidant and it's starting to hurt our decision-making. We spend hours in meetings trying to reach consensus on things where someone should just decide, and I suspect we all have opinions we're not sharing because we don't want to create tension.

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Your team gets along so well that nobody says what they really think.

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