My business partner and I are both women in a male-dominated industry and we started our company partly to create something different, but now that we're growing we're finding ourselves having heated disagreements about how much we should adapt to industry norms versus maintain our alternative approach. Every client interaction becomes this internal debate about whether we're being strategic or selling out.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people who created an alternative to existing systems are discovering they have different thresholds for how much they're willing to compromise their vision to succeed within those systems.
“Where Are You with First-generation identity?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.