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When business partners have different definitions of shared leadership

We've been running this nonprofit together for three years and my co-founder keeps making unilateral decisions about budget and staffing while insisting we're equal partners. I'm starting to realize they see 'partnership' very differently than I do, and our board is beginning to notice the tension.

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Two people are discovering that their fundamental assumptions about power-sharing were never actually aligned.

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