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When creative partners have incompatible definitions of success

My friend and I launched this design studio together but they want to scale quickly and take on bigger clients while I want to stay small and focus on craft, and every business decision has become a referendum on what success means. We're designing the same things but building toward completely different futures.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Divergent aspirations for creative enterprises can transform every operational decision into an existential conflict about purpose and achievement.

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