My department keeps saying we want to 'flatten hierarchy' but every time we try to implement something more collaborative, the same people end up making the decisions anyway and the rest of us are just consulted after the fact. Our manager thinks they're being participatory but it feels performative and I don't know how to say that without seeming ungrateful or difficult.
More people experience this than they realize.
A group committed to changing their power dynamics is stuck in patterns that reproduce the same hierarchy while everyone pretends the change is happening.
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