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When creative collectives sacrifice collaboration for efficiency

Our dance collective used to make decisions through long conversations where everyone felt heard, but as we've gotten busier we've started making choices more efficiently and now half the group feels like they're just executing someone else's vision. We've gained productivity but lost something essential about why we wanted to work together.

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The practical demands of creative work are undermining the collaborative values that originally drew the group together.

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