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When business partners can't move past a previous failure together

Our startup failed two years ago and now we're working on something new together, but every strategic decision turns into a rehash of what went wrong last time and who was responsible for what. We can't seem to separate the lessons we genuinely need to carry forward from the blame and defensiveness that's making it impossible to trust each other's judgment again.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The line between learning from failure and being paralyzed by it becomes blurred when trust itself was part of what broke.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Letting the past hold you vs. learning from it?”

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