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When your team loses shared confidence in long-term goals

Our startup team used to be energized by our big vision but now when we talk about where we'll be in two years everyone gets quiet and I can feel we've all privately started hedging our bets but nobody wants to be the one to say the dream might be unrealistic.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Collective hope has eroded but the group maintains the fiction that nothing has changed, creating isolation within shared purpose.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Hope as temporal orientation?”

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