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Scenario

When academic collaborators struggle with competitive undercurrents

My research partner and I have been co-authoring papers for two years and we're both ambitious academics, but lately every conversation about our next project becomes an unspoken negotiation about whose career benefits more, and I hate that we're starting to think of our collaboration as transactional.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Professional ambition can transform intellectual partnership into zero-sum calculation.

Your guide for this
Mura
Mura works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with The inner critic?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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