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When mixing friendship and business creates unaddressed performance issues

My business partner and I have been friends for fifteen years, but now that we're working together, they're not pulling their weight and I'm resentful but afraid that addressing it will ruin our friendship. We both keep pretending everything is fine while the business suffers.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The desire to preserve one relationship prevents the honest communication necessary for another, leaving both relationships damaged by what cannot be said.

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“Where Are You with Fairness — what every civilization concluded?”

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