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When business partners have incompatible stress responses that create deadlock

My business partner and I have completely different approaches to stress — I shut down and research everything to death, she moves fast and makes decisions from gut instinct. When we're under pressure we end up paralyzed because neither of us trusts the other's process anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Two people with complementary strengths become incompatible under pressure because they haven't learned to integrate their different nervous system responses.

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