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When teams procrastinate on difficult organizational decisions

Our team keeps postponing the difficult decision about layoffs because no one wants to be the one to push for it even though we all know it's necessary. We have meetings about having meetings and keep hoping something will change so we won't have to choose.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Groups can get paralyzed by shared responsibility for painful choices, with everyone waiting for someone else to take the lead.

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