Collaboration is about getting into the weeds, about messiness.

While speed and efficiencies do help, getting faster to the wrong goal or executing flawlessly the wrong thing won’t move the needle.

Discussions, sometimes, feel like they get you stuck in the weeds. That it brings friction. And we try to avoid friction.

Here’s the thing, though.

Without discussions, there are no compromises and it becomes an easy way out when things are meh. It becomes easier to point fingers at. It becomes a chore.

And without friction, there’s no movement (physics 101).

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