Month: May 2024

Business Snake (BS) Detector

With a Big Smile and a hand stretched out, customers are greeted as if they are long lost cousins. Sound like the used car sales guy of the 1950″s?  Perhaps, but still fairly typical today in many cases.  So how does one assess the honesty of a business executive, sales representative, customer service or anyone

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THE Enforceable Contract

The days of the so-called gentlemen’s/gentlewoman’s handshake agreement are over if they ever truly existed. One of the most famous handshake deals was the 1983 acquisition of Getty Oil by Pennzoil.  Texaco sought to sweeten the deal with a superior offer that Getty accepted.  The original deal made in New York was later upheld in the

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