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Scenario

When professional cohorts create toxic competition disguised as collaboration

We're all in the same MBA program and there's this unspoken competition where everyone pretends to be collaborative while actually hoarding opportunities and information. I'm exhausted by the fake friendliness and I think we're all worse off for it but no one talks about it.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The group has developed a culture of strategic niceness that masks genuine competition and prevents authentic relationship building.

Your guide for this
Aurelius
Aurelius works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
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Peri

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