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When teams lose decision-making capacity through shared anxiety

Our startup founding team of three used to be able to make decisions quickly but now we second-guess everything and nobody wants to be the one who makes the call on anything important and we're basically paralyzed.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group's collective fear of making the wrong choice has created an inability to make any choice.

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