How to Maintain Quality Control as You Delegate
- July 18, 2017
Listen to the Episode Below: One of the great fears for creative business owners is that if they let go of the work, no one will do it as well as they do. (As a…
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May 9, 2017
It’s never a pretty sight when a business partnership has to be dissolved. Even uglier is what happens when you put in the time and effort to create a partnership agreement, only to find that the terms you included create more confusion than clarity. The cleverly-named blog, New York Business Divorce (why didn’t I think of that?), highlights a recent New York State case where the confusion over the definition of certain terms led to a major dispute when Joseph Costello, a lawyer with the firm of Costello, Shea & Gaffney, died. The surviving law partners disagreed with the way Costello’s estate interpreted their 1993 partnership agreement. (Gee, imagine that). At stake was Costello’s capital account when he died, calculated at over $130,000.00. It’s a fascinating (for some of us) analysis of how the Nassau County Court reached its decision. Essentially, the judge had to parse through the language to see where the inconsistencies lay. If you accept Costello’s estate’s interpretation of the language, did it meet a reasonable, logical conclusion? What about the surviving partners?…
Continue ReadingListen to the Episode Below: One of the great fears for creative business owners is that if they let go of the work, no one will do it as well as they do. (As a…
Read More“I. Don’t. Have. Time. To. Grow. My. Business,” said Mark through clenched teeth. I could hear the frustration in the clipped tones. The resentment. The weariness. Trying to keep a lid on it all. And…
Read MoreIn the last few videos, I’ve been talking about how to handle difficult clients. Tacking on an “aggravation surcharge” when they demand more than you agreed. Or require a miraculous turnaround time. Those are uncomfortable…
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