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How creative partnerships change when success raises the stakes

My business partner and I used to bounce ideas off each other effortlessly but since we started getting real success we're both more cautious and precious about our ideas and the creative flow between us has become stilted and strategic.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Success can paradoxically constrain the very creative spontaneity that generated it, as partners become protective of what once flowed freely.

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