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How maritime managers navigate competing incentives in collaborative roles

The other fleet managers in our shipping consortium and I are supposed to be coordinating vessel schedules and route optimization, but we've all started hoarding information and making side deals because the bonus structure pits us against each other. We're calling it collaboration but we're actually undermining the whole system we're supposed to be managing together.

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You're told to cooperate with the same people the bonus system is pushing you to beat.

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