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Partnership Dynamics: When Good Partners Go Bad

When business partnerships turn toxic, they can destroy everything you've built faster than any external threat. Steve's contracting company has tripled in capacity and grown from $1.6 million to nearly $5 million in sales, but his 51% partner has become increasingly paranoid and controlling. What started as a promising partnership is now characterized by constant emotional volatility, veto-without-vision decision-making, and a destructive control spiral that's driving good employees away. The hidden costs are enormous: team performance suffers, decision-making slows to a crawl, and growth potential diminishes as energy gets diverted to managing partnership dysfunction instead of building the business. The real lesson? Most partnership problems could be prevented with proper planning and documentation upfront. Great partnerships require great boundaries, clear decision-making authority, and systems that let you work through conflicts without destroying the business you've built together.

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