How to Run a Business to Avoid Conflicts—and Why?

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AVAlexander VolchekConflictPAPartnerBusiness MolodostF/Friend / friendsForgiveness

Main threads of the conversation

• 00:00Partner conflicts
• 00:25The problem of business partnership
• 02:48The problem of expectations
• 03:54How partners rely on each other in business
• 05:30Join the comments. I reply to everyone personally!
• 06:11What to do about expectations. Step one
• 08:11Step two. How to discuss problems
• 11:00A new range of relationships after addressing expectations. Two paths
• 12:53My experience
• 13:38What do you want from your partner? Write in the comments

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Individual claims identified in the material: who said them, when, and what kind of thought they express. Each timestamp opens that point in the video.

• 01:21

  My greatest concern when I woke up was my relationship with my partner.

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• 01:39

  I asked why. He said, “For six months, every morning when I get in the car, I've had this strange feeling that my driver thinks something bad about me. I spend the whole ride worrying about it.”

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• 05:14

  That doesn't mean being friends every day. It means a state of harmony, understanding, synergy, and complementarity in which you strengthen each other.

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• 06:13

  The first and most important ambiguous action is to examine your own expectations of your partner.

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• 09:28

  In resolving conflicts—we're discussing the main conflicts today and, most importantly, their causes—you can resolve them endlessly, but unless you understand the cause, nothing will happen.

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• 10:02

  Again, allow yourself to say, “I want to be human and act truthfully.”

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• 10:09

  “So I'm removing my expectations of my partner.”

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• 12:56

  I have a saying: over twenty years, I've had many different kinds of partnerships.

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• 13:06

  Some partnerships were with strong technology entrepreneurs. There was the well-known partnership at Business Molodost with Petya and Misha. And I partnered with the man who earned Russia's first billion dollars in cash specifically through…

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• 13:28

  These partnerships were completely different. Looking back now, at least, the best thing I could have done in them was take these two steps.

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