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When business partners develop unspoken power imbalances

My business partner and I started this company as equals but over the past year I've been handling all the client-facing work while they focus on operations, and now when we talk about big decisions I find myself deferring to them like they're the senior partner even though we own the same percentage. We both feel it but neither of us has said anything and it's starting to affect how we negotiate with investors.

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You've quietly started treating your equal partner as the boss, and it's showing.

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