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When teams struggle between innovation and risk management

My department keeps getting feedback that we need to be more innovative and take risks, but every time someone proposes something that might fail, the same three people shut it down with concerns about optics and budget. We all want the department to succeed but we have completely different definitions of what responsible risk-taking looks like.

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A group is paralyzed between competing definitions of responsibility.

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