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Scenario

When business partners struggle to balance profit and principle together

My best friend and I started a business together because we both believed in serving something bigger than profit, but now we're constantly torn between doing right by our employees and keeping our investors happy. We used to finish each other's sentences about our values and now we can barely look at each other during board meetings.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A shared commitment to ethical business is being tested by the practical demands of survival, creating distance between people who once shared the same vision.

Your guide for this
Mira
Mira works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Confucian Partnership Ethics — Duty and Love?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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