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Scenario

How to navigate business decisions when friendship complicates professional boundaries

Our startup founding team started as best friends and we used to make decisions by consensus but now that there's real money and pressure involved, we're discovering we have completely different values around risk and growth. The friendship makes it harder to have the hard business conversations we need to have.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Deep personal bonds can paradoxically inhibit the direct communication that high-stakes collaboration requires.

Your guide for this
Patan
Patan works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Social learning theory?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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