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When teams discover their shared mission means different things to everyone

Our startup team keeps talking about 'changing the world' but when we get into specifics about what we're actually building and for whom, we all seem to have different visions of what positive impact looks like, and we've never forced ourselves to reconcile those differences.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group united by abstract purpose is avoiding the harder work of examining whether their specific visions of good are actually compatible.

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