Our board keeps talking about 'maintaining organizational culture' but what they really mean is keeping things comfortable for the founding members while the staff - who are more diverse - are asking for actual structural changes. I'm caught between these groups and tired of translating frustrations in both directions.
More people experience this than they realize.
Someone becomes the unwilling intermediary between groups with unequal power who aren't communicating directly about their conflicting needs.
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