Last year, I had the honor to speak at the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants’ Young and Emerging Professionals Conference in Austin. As always when speaking, I got some good feedback from the audience. While discussing business partnerships and negotiations, I learned that many of the CPAs in the room had experience with faulty corporate and LLC documents. Most … Read the rest
R. Shawn McBride recently spoke about how to handle negotiations when you are the small guy.
Hey folks, Shawn here with you. Talking about what to do when you’re the small guy in negotiations. You know, I’ve spent years working on business planning. I worked as a lawyer in large law firms and then started my own law firm. I’ve … Read the rest
Hi, folks! Shawn here with you. I want to talk to you about contracts and what they are and I really want to break it down. Now, we’re going to get a little legal here. Many of you know, I’m a lawyer, I’m licensed in 12 states, and DC. But, I’m not your lawyer. So, I’m not advising you here, … Read the rest
We have discussed in earlier blogs about understanding the needs and wants of the other parties, and how to build a negotiation strategy so that both parties are satisfied and achieve their goals. I have spoken about negotiations at www.rshawnmcbridelive.com.
Sometimes clients will have a surprisingly emotional reaction to your negotiations. When this happens, it is more often about them … Read the rest
R. Shawn McBride recently gave some tips for negotiating.
Hey, folks, Shawn with you here. I want to talk to you about something important, it’s called negotiating with openness. We want to think about how we’re negotiating, right? Negotiations, I always say are controlled communications. We have information flowing back and forth, and based on various information we’re going to … Read the rest
R. Shawn McBride recently gave tips on negotiations.
Hey, folks, it’s Shawn here with you, and I want to talk about a new way of thinking about negotiations. We all think of negotiations as being stressful. When I was doing my research for the TEDx Talk of The Advantages of Women in Business, I looked at some studies on negotiation … Read the rest
R. Shawn McBride recently spoke about documenting important information in your LLC agreement and the risk involved when it is not documented.
Hey, folks, it’s Shawn here with you answering another question that we’ve seen come up in the community. Things people are asking is, can my partner change the locks on our facility? Can they close me out of … Read the rest
We’ve talked extensively in our blog about making negotiations a win/win (http://www.mcbrideforbusiness.com/blog/you-can-negotiat…thing-5-key-tips/). It’s our philosophy that negotiations are a conversation where two people are working with each other to get to an outcome that benefits both. It’s about economic specialization and trade. In a negotiation done right, each person will give the other something of benefit, and both persons will … Read the rest
I was recently presented with facts of a case where a business partner was diagnosed with a terminal illness. He knew he was dying, and what’s more, he refused to put together an estate plan.
What happens to a business in a case like this? Obviously, it puts on a lot of stress and strain on everyone. We don’t know … Read the rest
I spend a lot of my time setting up partnership agreements in different forms — working to make businesses that work economically with multiple involved. One of the things I always tell my clients is we need to protect their wealth. We need to make sure no matter what happens, that wealth that everybody has worked so hard to create, … Read the rest
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