Our organizations become aware of whatever they need to respond to in their world through our human capacity to sense the reality around us. And we humans are all different—we have different talents, backgrounds, roles, fields of expertise, and so on—so we naturally sense different things. Where there are multiple people, there are multiple perspectives. Yet, on most teams, critical perspectives that aren’t shared by the leader or by the majority are often ignored or dismissed. Even when we intend to do otherwise, we don’t have a way to integrate differing perspectives, so we end up falling
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