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When teams are asked to innovate within rigid organizational constraints

My manager keeps asking our team to be more 'innovative' but shoots down anything that challenges how we actually operate. The rest of my teammates have started just going through the motions and I don't know if I should call it out or join them in checking out.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The gap between what leadership says it wants and what it will actually allow creates cynicism and disengagement.

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