My business partner handles all our client relationships because he's more comfortable with that kind of networking, but lately I've noticed that clients assume he's the senior partner and I'm the technical support, even though we're equals. We've never talked about how this affects our partnership dynamics or what it means for our long-term growth.
More people experience this than they realize.
The practical division of labor you agreed to is creating perceptions and power imbalances you never anticipated, and addressing it requires confronting assumptions both of you have been avoiding.
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