Friday, Mar. 18, 2016 - "Writing off a business relationship when you haven’t tried to salvage it first is a very bad idea," says Lauren Bloom, who speaks and consults on business ethics and wrote "Art of the Apology: How, When, and Why to Give and Accept Apologies." Burned bridges "do come back to bite you," she adds. "So it’s really worth learning how to [repair them] before a problem blows up in your face." Here’s how Bloom and other experts recommend fixing things.