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The Reluctant Sunset

Describe a time you had to sunset a high-performing product or initiative because it no longer aligned with the company's long-term pivot, despite heavy pushback from the team that built it. How did you manage the morale of the high-performers while enforcing a decision that felt like a failure to them?

Key concepts

strategic alignmentemotional intelligenceownership

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