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When work teams get stuck in unofficial roles that limit collaboration

Our startup team of four has been working together for two years and we're finally seeing some success but we've also developed these weird dynamics where two of us are the 'serious ones' and two are the 'creative ones' and now we can barely make decisions without it becoming about these roles we never officially chose.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group has unconsciously organized itself around rigid identities that initially served a function but now constrain authentic contribution and shared decision-making.

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