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When business partners avoid long-term planning conversations

My business partner and I keep saying we need a five-year plan but every time we sit down to work on it we end up rehashing the same tactical fires and arguing about who's responsible for what happened last quarter. We've been in business together for six years and I'm starting to think we're afraid to actually talk about where this is going because we might discover we want different things.

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You keep meaning to plan the future but only ever end up fighting over last quarter's messes.

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