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February 14, 2019

Couples in business together must master new set of skills for the home and office

  • There are common hotspots: defining roles, communication styles, clashing egos and just too much togetherness.
    • By JOYCE M. ROSENBERG
    AP Business Writer

    NEW YORK — Debbie and Gary Douglas sometimes need to remind each other, this is your business partner talking.

    In business together for 16 years, the Douglases have found that being co-owners of a public relations firm requires them to be more direct with each other than they once were as spouses. Like the time Debbie Douglas was on a ladder in their Newport Beach, California, home and her husband told her to come down because she might break an ankle.


     
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