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When organizational co-leaders have fundamentally different theories of change

My co-director and I run a community program and we've realized we have completely different philosophies about whether to work within existing systems or challenge them directly. It's affecting every decision we make and our staff is starting to notice the tension between our approaches.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You're trying to maintain shared leadership while grappling with incompatible visions of how change happens.

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