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When teams can't bridge the gap between stated and actual values

My department has been talking about work-life balance for months but our actual culture rewards people who work nights and weekends, and anyone who sets boundaries gets quietly sidelined from important projects. We all see it happening but nobody wants to be the first to call it out directly.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group is trapped by the disconnect between their espoused values and their behavioral norms, with everyone complicit in maintaining the contradiction.

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