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When remote teams mistake meeting participation for actual alignment

Our distributed team has been having endless Zoom meetings about a project and everyone nods along but I can sense we're all interpreting things differently and no one wants to be the person who extends the meeting by asking for clarification. We're moving forward on different understandings.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Digital collaboration can create an illusion of consensus while real understanding remains fragmented and unspoken.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Long-distance relationships via technology?”

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