Everyone wants certainty, security and guarantees. After all, the world around us is an inexhaustible source of bitter and disastrous change. Entrepreneurs, too, want to stand their ground against the chaos of their industry, their country and the world. But sometimes this desire does them harm.
For example, when the founder clings to the terms of an outdated partnership agreement. It seems that he is right when he makes a claim: “I work 24 hours a day in the business, and you live two years abroad, receiving dividends on time. But we have equal shares, and you want to influence my decisions as before”. This is still a positive scenario, meaning that the person has a conscience, and between them there is trust, allowing them to voice what has boiled over inside. Often business is just quietly taken over.
But if you discern the spirit behind the letter of the agreement, it may not be the "plowman and the freeloader"that is the problem. Why, after a dozen years of successful cooperation, did one of the partners begin to lose interest in the business? Why did such a large company never form a professional team, and why was the founder involved in the operation as if it were a startup? Why, when disagreements grew over business strategy, did both pretend that everything was OK?
These and other "Why?" remind us that partnership is not so much a contract as it is a process. And this process adds value only if each participant is aware of the indispensability of the other's contribution. But everything changes - the context, the industry, the company, and the individual. Therefore, business, like an albatross in the wind, should not freeze the tilt of its wings. The dynamics of the process require periodic renegotiation of agreements. Legal documents, like a photograph or a video, try to capture real life, but in vain. The snapshot remains, but life has already moved on.
Sincerely yours,
-Alexander
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