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When team celebration rituals create pressure instead of recognition

Our team started doing weekly wins celebrations but it's turned into this performance where people feel like they have to have something impressive to share and the quiet steady work gets ignored and I can see people getting anxious about it but everyone acts like it's great.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The attempt to illuminate achievement can cast shadows on the very contributions it meant to honor.

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