Actress Gwyneth Paltrow has a lifestyle newsletter, GOOP, that every now and again prints a piece that really makes me think. 

This week, the topic was on friendship, but I think the following quote on agreements applies really well to business relationships and friendship.

"The important thing to recognize about agreements is that it takes more than one person to make one.  If we see that an agreement is not serving our well-being and the well-being of our friend, it is intelligent to break it...and it is possible to break an agreement without abandoning the friendship." (Author, of this quote and a forthcoming book on open-ended questions, is Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel)

I believe if you were to substitute in the words 'business relationship' for 'friendship' in the above statement, the same would hold true.

Have you ever abandoned a business relationship that was not adding to your company's well being, and/or the other party's well-being?  Where is that relationship now?  How is the health of that relationship?