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When your team can't break the reactive work cycle

Our startup team is stuck in this cycle where we say we're going to slow down and be more strategic but then a client emergency happens and we're right back to reactive mode and everyone is too tired to have the planning conversations we keep postponing. I'm worried we're going to burn out before we figure out how to grow sustainably.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group mistakes constant motion for progress and cannot find the stillness needed to change direction.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with African philosophy of technology — Ubuntu and the examined tool?”

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