When you hear the word “partnership,” what does it really mean to you? And what does it mean for your business partner? All too often I find individuals and organizations are not on the same page with a foundational definition of what they mean when they toss out this term. And this causes mistrust and […]
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Thank Your Partners Today!
On Valentine’s Day, we celebrate our most precious partnerships and the people, especially that special someone, that make life complete. I’m also thinking about the spirit that this day can—and should—bring to our business relationships. I’m not talking about love necessarily, although loving your work makes your business relationships a whole lot easier to deal […]
What is building for 2014?
When a new year rolls around, you know what happens: historians highlight the past, pundits ponder the future, and I wonder whether it is all more entertaining patter than productive reflection or context. But we all get into to the spirit of the exercise anyway. We know changes can occur in nanoseconds that will impact […]
More to Partnership than Making Money
If you remember rocking out to the Pet Shop Boys you probably reached musical maturity during the 1980s. Ah yes, the 1980s: a time of economic struggle, redistribution of wealth, corporate greed, conspicuous consumption and the rise of yuppies. Sort of like today! One of the UK duo’s big hits, “Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of […]
Lawyers Who “Get” Outsourcing as a Partnership
It’s really refreshing when lawyers understand outsourcing as much more than a cost reduction and risk avoidance exercise. This is an important point to ponder as The Vested Outsourcing Manual hits the bookstores this week, because it has extensive guidance about the priorities that attorneys for companies and service providers should bring to modern outsource […]
Is Outsourcing Really a Partnership?
Companies that are new to outsourcing, and even those highly experienced with it, like to say their relationship is a partnership. I suppose it’s good for public consumption and public relations to consider all of the businesses and people a company works with as partners, and maybe in some way they really believe they are […]
