My co-founder handles stress by diving deeper into work and I handle it by wanting to step back and think strategically, and we've never acknowledged that these different styles are creating a dynamic where the more pressure we're under, the more we fundamentally misunderstand what the other person needs. Last week during our hardest month yet, he thought I was checking out when I was trying to solve our problems, and I thought he was avoiding the big picture when he was trying to save us.
More people experience this than they realize.
Under pressure, you and your cofounder cope in opposite ways and end up misreading each other.
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If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.