Tag Archives: ending business relationships

Time to Fire Your Client

When the relationship’s not working, it’s time to cut the ties. It’s 11 o’clock on a Friday night, and you’re…

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When Partnerships Turn Sour

Reproduced from my weekly ezine, LexAppeal: As I mentioned last week, business partnerships are delicate creatures. Like Japanese maple trees,…

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Partnerships Are Not Eternal

The article “Protect Your Business and Your Family” raised a valid point — that partnerships are not eternal.  But the point…

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‘Til Death Do We Part: How Not to Get Rid of a Business Partner

From the Department of “Was that form of exit strategy written into our partnership agreement?” comes this story from the…

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Leaving a Business Partner

True confessions time:  the last few months have been very hard because, well, for all of my desire to be…

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Appeasing an Ex-Business Partner When You’re Doing the Exiting

In a question that seems more appropriate for The Ethicist (the New York Times Sunday Magazine’s Q&A column on ethical…

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Basic Training: Z is for Zapping Yourself by Walking Away

OK, so there aren’t many usable “Z” words in this context.  🙂  Today’s Basic Training post revisits that old, old…

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Partnership Q&A: Time to get out . . . or get more $$?

Q. I am a founding partner in a 15-year business.  All 3 partners work in different capacities at our business.…

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Wanting Out of a Partnership

Reports last week indicated that Siemens, the German conglomerate, was looking to end its partnership with Fujitsu Siemens Computer.  According to…

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Difficult Conversations for Business Partners

The last couple of weeks have been filled with frantic inquiries from entrepreneurs looking to get out of their business…

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