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Scenario

How to repair trust when startup teams develop informal hierarchies

Our startup team of four used to make decisions collectively but as we've grown we've fallen into this pattern where two of us talk through everything privately first and then present to the group, and I can feel trust eroding even though we're not doing it intentionally. The other two are pulling back and I don't know how to address it without making it worse.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Unconscious power dynamics can emerge organically in small groups, creating exclusion that threatens the very intimacy that made collaboration possible.

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