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When business partners avoid difficult conversations about their shared vision

Three of us started a small business together as friends and now that it's actually succeeding we're discovering we have completely different visions for what we want it to become. We're avoiding the conversation because we don't want to ruin the friendship but the tension is getting worse and affecting our work.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Success reveals incompatibilities that friendship had previously masked, creating a web of loyalty conflicts.

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