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When creative groups outgrow their decision-making process

Our art collective used to make decisions by consensus but now we're twelve people and every project proposal turns into a philosophical debate that goes nowhere. We all still believe in the work but we've lost the ability to actually choose a direction and move forward together.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A collective's growth has made their original egalitarian process unwieldy, creating paralysis where there was once fluid creativity.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with The examined creative life — Murasaki's synthesis?”

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