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When boards make decisions outside of formal processes

Our nonprofit board keeps making decisions in side conversations before meetings and then presenting them as collaborative choices, and I'm realizing I don't know how to challenge this without being seen as difficult or not a team player.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Someone recognizes a pattern of false collaboration but fears that naming it will position them as the problem rather than addressing the actual dysfunction.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

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