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How startup teams navigate stress-induced dysfunction

Our startup founding team of three has been through two failed launches and we all cope with stress differently - I withdraw, Jake gets hyperactive, and Sarah gets controlling - and now we're scared to make decisions together because we trigger each other's worst patterns.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Complementary skills become opposing coping mechanisms under pressure, paralyzing the very collaboration success requires.

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