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You're creating a false choice. You can have trusting relationships with family and friends and still be shrewd when it comes to business. By all means trust yo
by imgabe 13y ago
You're creating a false choice. You can have trusting relationships with family and friends and still be shrewd when it comes to business. By all means trust your loved ones. When it comes to business arrangements, stick with exactly what was written down on paper and agreed to by both parties. If this were a situation based on personal trust, they wouldn't have you signing a contract in the first place.
- foobarbazqux 13y agoPerhaps, but it would also be hypocritical, and hypocrisy is the opposite of integrity. A lack of integrity by definition affects all areas of one's life. What happens when down the road you get involved in a business deal with a friend or family member? But, go ahead and substitute "close business partners" for "close friends" in my comment if you insist that the personal and professional spheres of one's life are completely separable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrity Also, the premise of "stick with exactly what was written down on paper and agreed to by both parties", while valuable in conflict situations where you've entered into a contract in good faith, is manipulative letter-of-the-law legal wrangling when the usual negotiation process has been abused to get out of signing something and the other party isn't even aware that you have different beliefs about the terms you've agreed upon.