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When teams struggle with competitive behavior despite collaborative values

My department keeps hiring people who say they want to work collaboratively but then everyone defaults to competitive individual behavior when deadlines hit and we can't seem to bridge the gap between what we say we value and how we actually operate under pressure.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The group's stated collaborative values consistently collapse under pressure, revealing a fundamental misalignment between espoused culture and embedded behavioral patterns.

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