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When teams avoid discussing their deeper purpose

Our startup team keeps having the same fights about product direction but nobody wants to acknowledge that we fundamentally disagree about what kind of impact we want to have in the world, and I think we're all afraid that talking about it honestly will break us apart.

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A group bound by shared work is discovering that their unstated values may be incompatible with their stated goals.

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