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When gossip and side channels replace talking directly

The real conversations on my team never happen out loud. Someone's frustrated with a colleague, and instead of telling them, it goes into a private message to me, or a quiet vent by the coffee machine. Almost nothing gets said to the person it's actually about, and all this whispering has quietly become how the whole team really runs.

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On your team the real talk happens in side channels, never to the person's face.

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