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When team rituals lose their meaning as organizations grow

Our team has a quarterly celebration ritual that started meaningful but now feels forced and nobody wants to be the one to say it's not working anymore because the founder created it and it was special when we were smaller but now it just feels like obligation disguised as culture.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The forms that once held genuine spirit can become empty shells, but dismantling them feels like betraying what they originally represented.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Ceremony and marking time?”

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