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When teams enable problematic behavior from high performers

Our startup team has one person who consistently takes credit for collaborative work and it's creating resentment, but they're also genuinely talented and we can't afford to lose them right now. Everyone knows what's happening but we keep working around it instead of addressing it directly.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You're learning that avoiding difficult conversations doesn't make them disappear—it just makes everyone complicit in perpetuating the problem.

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