As a team navigating ambiguity it can feel like you're going in circles.

But each time around to a place that looks superficially similar, you're now individually and collectively wiser.

Seen from above it looks like circles; from the side it looks like a spiral, making progress in a third dimension.

As every team member absorbs the context and plays back their understanding, each accumulation of new insight, even if it's mostly just repeating back what others on the team had already expressed, accumulates little bits of net new knowledge.

As everyone's context is increasingly aligned, everyone's different perspectives and insights can start finding the breakthrough insights.