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When startup teams face collective burnout but can't admit it

Our startup team has been working 80-hour weeks for eight months and we're all burned out but nobody wants to be the first person to say they need to pull back because we're afraid it will look like we're not committed and the whole thing will fall apart.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Shared investment in a goal creates conditions where individual needs cannot be acknowledged without seeming to threaten the group's survival.

Ideas that help explain it
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