Comments on: 81 Strategies To Fix A Bad, Falling Apart Business Partnership

By: mury

mury — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:44:00 +0000

oohhh… thank you for providing such good suggestions.
i have been so headache facing reality that partner i have worked with is really frustrating.. bullying many things. it’s very difficult to walk away when we are bounded by so many things.
he’s trying to treating me in any ways..
but at least now I feel a bit better after deciding to be apart…though ‘big homework’ waiting ..

By: Mike Michalowicz

Mike Michalowicz — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:39:54 +0000

Thanks Steve. Yes lots of conflicting advice… that is the idea. Everyone has their own experience on this one, and I wonder if there is really one “right” answer.

By: Steve Anson

Steve Anson — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 21:45:00 +0000

Interesting but lots of conflicting advice here. I think a business partnership is completely different to a marriage. One is a covenant made under God the other is not. In a business partnership, 1 + 1 must equal 3 or, perhaps the best solution is to part friends and remember the good that came from your time working together.

By: Ahmet

Ahmet — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 03:53:00 +0000

It makes it so hard when you go into a business with your best friend of 16 years and they get lazy and act like they don’t know their job. It is so frustrating when I get asked by my partner how to do something when we have done it a million times over the past 3 years. Even the employees and consultants we contract for see he is lazy and all he does is stand around and talk, takes extremely long breaks and argues with everyone.

He also refuses to work without me, i’m assuming because he knows I will do all the work and he doesn’t have to think because he can just ask me. I also have the esteemed privilege of training all new employees (Just found that out today). I might as well be doing this myself and hiring people, at least if they worked like him i could can them.

Alas he is literally my best friend and I can’t just quit. Although I think about it daily and wish to god we lost all our work and the business went under so I could start fresh on my own.

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By: Mike Michalowicz

Mike Michalowicz — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:21:15 +0000

@Heather (or whatever your real name is) – You are very welcome.

- Mike

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