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When your team can't break free from collective urgency culture

Our startup team keeps talking about work-life balance but we're all still checking Slack at dinner and working weekends because everyone else is and no one wants to be the first to actually step back. We're trapped in this collective urgency that none of us actually want but can't seem to escape together.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group caught between shared values about pace and the magnetic pull of hustle culture that keeps everyone spinning.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Mediterranean relationship with time?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.