{"id":1054,"date":"2012-02-27T01:24:18","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T06:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1054"},"modified":"2012-02-08T10:35:17","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T15:35:17","slug":"its-just-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2012\/02\/its-just-business\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Just Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>People often enter business relationships without first answering one question: If I fire you, will that affect our personal relationship?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Business relationships are about business. They involve contracts and agreements:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You will do this<\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p>I will do that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is pretty simple when you consider these terms. This is pretty complicated when you have an 0ther-than-business relationship before entering a business relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few other-than-business relationships:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We are next door neighbors<\/li>\n<li>Our kids play soccer, are in the marching band, and so on together<\/li>\n<li>We attend the same church<\/li>\n<li>We are family<\/li>\n<li>You are entering a business relationship with one of my children or other relatives<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Questions to ask before entering a business relationship:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Will we still chat at the mail box if you fire me?<\/li>\n<li>Will I move my kid to a different soccer team if you fire me?<\/li>\n<li>Will I still attend the same church as you if you fire me?<\/li>\n<li>Will I still talk to you at family events if you fire me?<\/li>\n<li>Will I still be friends or whatever if you fire my child?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Don&#8217;t enter a business relationship with a person if:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>These questions sound icky<\/li>\n<li>You cannot imagine that your friend would fire you<\/li>\n<li>You cannot separate business and other relationships<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips People often enter business relationships without first answering one question: If I fire you, will that affect our personal relationship? Business relationships are about business. They involve contracts and agreements: You will do this and I will do that. This is pretty simple when you consider these terms. This is pretty complicated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,56,9],"tags":[183,177,132],"class_list":["post-1054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expectations","category-family","category-management","tag-expectations","tag-family","tag-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1055,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions\/1055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}