[Bharat Nain]

Another FIRST-A-HOLIC has been experiencing a similar issue so I've lumped these together
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My team has a great mentor, IMO the greatest in the world, but he will be leaving the team in a few years. He is starting to slow down his involvement with the team, and comes to only about 2 or 3 meetings a week. However, this mentor still keeps his lead mentor power, and we can't get too much done without his "ok". Because he's not coming to all meetings anymore, yet still makes the final decisions, we sometimes are left for a few days unable to do things until said mentor comes to a meeting to OK things. We'd get the OK from other mentors, however they still say our lead mentor has the final decision.

This has greatly hindered our team, and has wasted a lot of time during build, and unfortunately will be worse next year unless it's fixed. Any suggestions?

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