When we go to an ice cream shop, there’s rarely ever just one and only flavor of ice cream. Ice cream may be the only thing served there, but it comes in a seemingly endless array of flavors… and they can be mixed together! The same goes for decision-making.
Like different flavors of ice cream, as co-owners you’ll have different approaches for how you want to achieve your desired outcomes. For a decision made by one partner, the other may wholly disagree with it because of how the decision was made. And yet, if the decision was made in a different way that addressed or balanced preferences, the outcome could be more desirable.
By taking the time to have a conversation with business partners where you learn about each other’s decision-making preferences, everyone will be better prepared to support each other in the goal of creating stronger processes to make important business decisions.
With your needs in mind, move onto Step 4 to start making governing decisions.
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