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When old and new community leaders clash over organizational change

Our community center board is split between the old-timers who've been running things for decades and newer members who want to change how we make decisions and serve the neighborhood and every board meeting feels like we're fighting about everything except what we're actually fighting about.

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Generational and philosophical differences about leadership create proxy battles over process when the real conflict is about whose vision of community will prevail.

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