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When business partnerships are affected by racial dynamics

My business partner handles our client relationships and I handle operations, but we've realized that clients respond to us very differently and some of the dynamics feel racialized in ways that affect our partnership. We've been dancing around it because we don't want to make it weird between us, but the elephant in the room is getting bigger.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

External racial dynamics infiltrate internal partnerships, creating tensions that feel too risky to address directly.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Ethnic identity and heritage?”

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