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When creative groups develop informal leadership structures

Our art collective started as five equals but now two people do most of the talking in meetings and the rest of us have started deferring even when we disagree. The work is getting more polished but less interesting, and I think we're all feeling it but nobody wants to be the one to disrupt what seems to be working.

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Emergent hierarchies are constraining the multiplicity of voices that made your collaboration vital.

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