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Scenario

When peer groups inadvertently encourage false performance

We launched our program six months ago and the other founders in my cohort keep asking how it's going and I keep saying 'great!' but actually we're barely hitting our numbers and I'm working sixteen hour days and I think everyone else is crushing it but maybe we're all just pretending.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The absence of honest struggle-sharing in a peer group is creating isolation and preventing mutual support during difficult periods.

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