In low-trust environments, it doesn’t matter if decision-makers have all the awareness in the world of their structure, culture, or strategy— stakeholders simply won’t cooperate. They’ll be highly skeptical or cynical about organizational commitments, believing them only to be performative or decoupled. They’ll distance themselves from participating out of self-protection or participate in bad faith to see whether new initiatives can be leveraged or undermined for personal benefit. Movements will fizzle and fail, and each failed effort further solidifies in the minds of skeptics that success
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