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How teams can work with fundamental personality differences instead of fighting them

Our startup team of four has been working together for six months and we've realized that two of us are natural optimists who want to move fast and two of us are more cautious and detail-oriented, and instead of being complementary these differences are creating constant tension about timeline and risk. Every decision becomes a battle between speed and thoroughness.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Complementary strengths become oppositional forces when team members don't understand how to integrate different approaches to the same goal.

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