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When male business partners clash over leadership styles and masculine authority

My business partner and I are both men but we handle conflict and leadership completely differently - he's direct and aggressive in a way that gets results but makes people uncomfortable, and I try to be more collaborative but he thinks I'm being weak. Our team is caught in the middle and we can't figure out how to model leadership together.

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Two men are struggling to reconcile different approaches to masculine leadership within their shared business.

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