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tldr; Looking for articles or books about teamwork and time-management between founders in a startup environment to share with my co-founder who has never worked in a team or in any structured job in his life.

The business is physical business with production facilities, that exists for 6-7 years. During this time it hasn't grown but has always supported its owner financially. I've always helped a little bit with communication and marketing but not too much because there was lack of execution on the other side. Last year we agreed that together we can make this thing grow and I joined as partner.

His profile: for his whole life he was always a business owner, mostly in production and printing. Loves making things with his hands, hobbyist woodworker. Not very digital - has a smartphone but you can't get him on a team discord for example. Lacks any organisation skills which is always compensated by the people he hires.

My profile: 17 years of digital communications & martech. Worked in corporations, NGOs and startups. Started & failed a few businesses, always with a partner, never alone.

The issue that I have is that my work experience makes me expect certain things to be true - that we all have a common agreement on how things work, how we manage our time and mutual tasks, how we sync priorities and so on. And in this case I am always hitting a stone. My first reactions were a little bit patronising, where I go into "explain management" mode and although I am getting some things through I feel that it is not an effective method cause it is slow and also external for him, leaving the agency and responsibility to me.

So I am looking for something that would describe the co-founder dynamics, co-management, syncing, time-management and so on. I want to just give it to him as a recommended read and then we will have some basis on which to build and discuss, an external authority and structure of things, that is better than my own experience.

(Edit: the intention of giving a text is establishing a common ground of basic terminology and knowledge on the topic/s over which then we can have conversations and sync our intentions. My problem until now hasn't been so much total denial for cooperation but more of a lack of common language to facilitate this. So, no - giving him something to read would not be accepted as patronising, he would gladly accept. The alternative is long lectures from me and I don't think I am so well prepared or structured.)