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When creative teams develop invisible power dynamics

Our design collective has been working together for two years and we've developed this unspoken hierarchy where certain people's ideas get explored and others get politely acknowledged and forgotten. We all pretend it's democratic but the work doesn't lie about whose vision is actually driving everything.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group maintains the fiction of equality while unconsciously establishing creative hierarchies that shape every decision.

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