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How creative groups handle the tension between ideals and efficiency

Our design collective has always made decisions by consensus but we're at a point where we need to move faster and every meeting turns into these long philosophical discussions about process and I think some of us secretly wish someone would just decide things, but none of us wants to be the person who breaks our egalitarian thing.

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