My business partner and I are rebuilding after our restaurant got wiped out by flooding, but we have completely different philosophies about debt and risk now that we've seen how quickly everything can disappear. She wants to rebuild bigger and better with investors, I want to stay small and debt-free, and we're both acting like our approach is obviously right without really examining why we've changed so much.
More people experience this than they realize.
Shared trauma has created divergent survival strategies that feel mutually exclusive, threatening both the business and the partnership.
“Where Are You with Financial recovery after disaster?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.