"Takes a village"
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How "Takes a village" shows up at work
Originally about raising children, now mainly about launching features. Surfaces in retrospectives and thank-you notes, usually from someone who wants to distribute credit broadly, or from someone who needs to explain why a simple project took six months.
Pulling off an event like this really takes a village across every department.
An event like this really requires everyone across every department to pitch in.
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