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When team input becomes performative consultation

Our team has this pattern where we'll spend weeks debating a decision in Slack and then our CEO will just announce what we're doing anyway and we all act like the discussion mattered. I'm realizing I've started checking out of these conversations entirely and I think others have too.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Your team pretends to decide things the CEO has already decided, and you've stopped caring.

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