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Scenario

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.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group's commitment to harmony is preventing the productive disagreement necessary for good decisions.

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