We've been conducting interviews for a senior role and my co-founder keeps pushing candidates I have serious concerns about while dismissing the ones I think would be excellent and we're both acting like this is about 'cultural fit' when really we just have completely different ideas about what leadership looks like. I can feel us getting entrenched in our positions instead of figuring out what we actually need.
More people experience this than they realize.
You and your co-founder keep clashing over hires when it is really about a deeper disagreement neither of you names.
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