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Scenario

How to separate business decisions from personal relationships in partnerships

My business partner and I have been friends for fifteen years before we started this company, and now that we're facing some serious financial pressure, I can see how differently we handle stress and risk. She wants to pivot quickly and I want to stick with our plan, but we're both afraid that disagreeing too strongly will damage our friendship, so we're not really engaging with the business decisions we need to make.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people are letting their personal relationship constrain their professional decision-making when the stakes require full engagement with their differences.

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