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When teams talk values but reward different behaviors

My department keeps talking about work-life balance but our manager rewards the people who stay late and answer emails immediately, and when I brought this up in our team meeting everyone just got quiet and moved on.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group is performing alignment on values while their actual incentive structures reward the opposite, creating a silence around the contradiction.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Gandhian satyagraha and nonviolent resistance?”

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