The Partnership Charter: How To Start Out Right With Your New Business Partnership (or Fix The One You're In)
In The Partnership Charter, psychologist and business mediation expert David Gage offers a comprehensive guide to the art of establishing and maintaining a business partnership. The centerpiece of his approach is the Partnership Charter, a document that clearly outlines the goals, expectations, responsibilities, and relationships of the principals. The charter identifies potential sources of conflict and how they will be resolved, while addressing such sensitive issues as personal styles, values, money, and power. Illustrating every principle through engaging stories drawn from Gage's front-line experience consulting to business partners, as well as interviews with the founding partners of such successful businesses as Progressive Insurance Company and Manpower, Inc., The Partnership Charter dispels common myths and presents a practical framework for launching, building, and sustaining a thriving business partnership.
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The Partnership Charter: How To Start Out Right With Your New Business Partnership (or Fix The One You're In)
In The Partnership Charter, psychologist and business mediation expert David Gage offers a comprehensive guide to the art of establishing and maintaining a business partnership. The centerpiece of his approach is the Partnership Charter, a document that clearly outlines the goals, expectations, responsibilities, and relationships of the principals. The charter identifies potential sources of conflict and how they will be resolved, while addressing such sensitive issues as personal styles, values, money, and power. Illustrating every principle through engaging stories drawn from Gage's front-line experience consulting to business partners, as well as interviews with the founding partners of such successful businesses as Progressive Insurance Company and Manpower, Inc., The Partnership Charter dispels common myths and presents a practical framework for launching, building, and sustaining a thriving business partnership.
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The Partnership Charter: How To Start Out Right With Your New Business Partnership (or Fix The One You're In)

The Partnership Charter: How To Start Out Right With Your New Business Partnership (or Fix The One You're In)

by David Gage
The Partnership Charter: How To Start Out Right With Your New Business Partnership (or Fix The One You're In)

The Partnership Charter: How To Start Out Right With Your New Business Partnership (or Fix The One You're In)

by David Gage

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In The Partnership Charter, psychologist and business mediation expert David Gage offers a comprehensive guide to the art of establishing and maintaining a business partnership. The centerpiece of his approach is the Partnership Charter, a document that clearly outlines the goals, expectations, responsibilities, and relationships of the principals. The charter identifies potential sources of conflict and how they will be resolved, while addressing such sensitive issues as personal styles, values, money, and power. Illustrating every principle through engaging stories drawn from Gage's front-line experience consulting to business partners, as well as interviews with the founding partners of such successful businesses as Progressive Insurance Company and Manpower, Inc., The Partnership Charter dispels common myths and presents a practical framework for launching, building, and sustaining a thriving business partnership.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780738208985
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 06/30/2004
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 272
Sales rank: 334,892
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

David Gage is founder of BMC Associates, a multi-disciplinary Arlington, Virginia-based mediation firm. He is also an adjunct professor at the Kogod School of Business at American University, and maintains a private practice as a clinical psychologist. Gage speaks regularly to business and professional organizations, runs seminars, and writes articles on issues of preventing and resolving conflict. He lives in Arlington.

Table of Contents

Prefaceix
Part 1Partner Fundamentals
1The Rewards (and Risks) of Going into Business Together3
2Starting down the Right Path: A Partnership Charter31
Part 2It's Just Business
3Partners' Vision and Strategic Direction55
4Pieces of the Pie: Ownership Issues67
5Roles and Titles, Power and Status91
6Money: Taking It Out, and Sharing It109
7Governance121
Part 3The Intimate Side of Being Partners
8Personal Styles and Working Together135
9Partners' Personal Values149
10Is It Fair?161
11Getting What You Wish For: The Power of Expectations177
Part 4The Future is Sooner Than you Think
12Just Suppose: Scenario Planning for Partners193
13Essentials of Resolving Conflict201
AppendixStar Systems' Partnership Charter213
Notes245
Acknowledgments253
Index255
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