hopefully the sound on this one is better in this episode I talk about the red flags. You should be aware of before you start business with someone else and if you do have these red flags reach out, let’s talk about fixing them so that you can have a successful business partnership.

this episode paint the picture that’s gonna be the basis of our discussion for the next five or six episodes

Issues arise when two own a company 50/50. The story of the pusher and rhe pushed.

Like it or not, the deal is only what is on the document.

Responding to a scrapper

There is nothing wrong with having a personal and business goal in negotiation. But when the true goal surfaces after the negotiation framework is established, the true goal can be exploited by the other party.

What is your plan when you have to accept the unacceptable?

if you haven’t already considered that the other side could walk away well now you’re gonna have to come up with a Plan B and plan C. This might be the best thing that happened to you.

Sometimes before you’ve signed the deal, you realized you missed her maiden mistake about a key provision in the agreement or negotiation. When is it a good time to bring that up and how do you approach it?

Preparing to negotiate requires studying the other side’s public narrative so that you can use how they ascribe value against them. Social media scouring can help but also understanding - in a compensation negotiation for example - how they tell the financial markets their forward price to earnings.