5 ways high-performing teams stay calm when everything’s on fire

When markets swing, plans break, inboxes explode, and everyone starts saying the situation is “unprecedented” again, most teams do what humans have always done under pressure: they grip tighter. They add meetings. Escalate more decisions. Demand more updates. Work longer hours. And mistake motion for control.

That response is understandable. It is also exactly how teams get slower, more political, and more exhausted at the moment they most need clarity.

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