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When business partnerships blur personal and professional boundaries

My business partner and I started this company as best friends five years ago and we're successful but we never learned how to disagree about business without it feeling personal. Every professional conflict becomes about our friendship and every friendship moment gets contaminated by business stress.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The failure to differentiate between relational and transactional conflicts has contaminated both domains.

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