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When workplace dynamics undermine your business partner's authority

My business partner handles all our client-facing work and I do the technical stuff, but clients consistently address questions to me in meetings even when it's clearly her area of expertise, and we haven't figured out how to interrupt this pattern without making it weird. She says it doesn't bother her but I can tell it does.

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