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When creative collectives develop unspoken power dynamics

Our art collective has been making work together for two years and we've developed this unspoken hierarchy where the two most technically skilled people always end up making the final decisions, even though we started as equals. The rest of us have started to feel like assistants to their vision rather than true collaborators, but no one wants to be the one to say it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Talent inequality within a group gradually corrupts the original premise of equal creative partnership.

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