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Create cross-team “thought partner” sessions where employees work through a problem together but don’t solve it immediately. 3. Design spaces for connection.

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The human being is a “social animal,” as Aristotle suggested. We have a fundamental need to belong. Yet we are living in a time when the U.S. Surgeon General has warned about an epidemic of ...