Our research team has one member who dominates every meeting and dismisses ideas from the junior researchers, but they're brilliant and productive so our department head won't address it. The rest of us have started having separate meetings just to get our actual work done, and I can feel us fracturing.
More people experience this than they realize.
A group is fragmenting because they cannot directly address a power imbalance that authority figures refuse to acknowledge.
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