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When teams prioritize optics over authentic values

My work team keeps making decisions based on what will look good rather than what we actually believe is right, and I don't know how to bring up the fact that we're all compromising our integrity without sounding self-righteous.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group is caught in the tension between external expectations and internal conviction, where naming the compromise feels riskier than continuing to live it.

Ideas that help explain it
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