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When professional peer groups become places to perform success rather than seek support

We're all product managers who joined our companies around the same time and we meet monthly to share experiences, but lately these sessions have become performance theater where everyone pretends their launches are going great and their teams love working with them. I miss when we could actually help each other with the messy reality of this job.

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Your support group turned into everyone bragging, so you've lost the honest help you came for.

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