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When creative collectives outgrow their egalitarian structure

Our theater company started as five equals but over two years we've naturally fallen into different roles and responsibilities and now decision-making feels awkward because we haven't acknowledged that we're not actually equals anymore. Some of us do more work and care more deeply and pretending otherwise is making every meeting inefficient.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The organic emergence of leadership and varying commitment levels challenges the democratic ideals that initially bound creative groups together.

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