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When team coordination requires navigating competing boundary philosophies

My team leads all have different philosophies about work-life boundaries and when we try to coordinate across departments our calendar becomes this weird compromise where no one's boundaries are actually honored. We're accommodating everyone in theory but no one in practice.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Your attempt to respect everyone's time boundaries has created a system that violates everyone's time boundaries.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with The examined calendar — whose time is it??”

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