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When organizational incentives undermine stated collaboration goals

We're all consultants in the same practice area and we're supposed to collaborate but everyone's compensation is tied to individual business development, so we end up competing for the same clients while pretending to be teammates. The cognitive dissonance is exhausting and I think it's making us all less effective.

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