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How to establish decision-making authority in partnerships

Three of us started this consulting practice together and we've never had clear agreements about how we make decisions, so every choice becomes this exhausting consensus-building process where we're all trying to be collaborative but nothing moves forward efficiently. We're spending more time in alignment meetings than doing actual work and we're all getting frustrated but no one wants to be the person who suggests we need more structure.

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Your partnership has no rules for deciding things, so nothing gets done and everyone's frustrated.

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