Agree on an Exit Plan during the Negotiation Phase

Tip 13: Agree on an Exit Plan during the Negotiation Phase Many couples opt to draft a pre-nuptial agreement before they get married. While some people believe that signing a […]

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Make Sure the Objectives for Partnering Are Aligned

Tip 12: Make Sure the Objectives for Partnering Are Aligned While answering the question “What’s in it for me?” and while developing your contributions matrix, it should be clear to […]

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Build and Maintain Your Alliance Business Plan from Early Stages Onward

Tip 11: Build and Maintain Your Alliance Business Plan from Early Stages Onward So you and your prospective partner have agreed to enter into an alliance and do business together. […]

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Be Clear on the Roles and Responsibilities

Tip 10: Be Clear on the Roles and Responsibilities Anyone who has been in a marriage or long-term relationship would know that maintaining such a relationship takes a lot of […]

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Agree on a Set of Alliance Core Values and Operating Principles

Tip 9: Agree on a Set of Alliance Core Values and Operating Principles You and your partner will be able to accomplish so many things just by trying to bridge […]

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Understand the Cultural Differences

Tip 8: Understand the Cultural Differences When two people begin occupying the same space – as roommates or dorm-mates, as co-workers using the same office, as a couple living together […]

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Set a Cadence of Communication

Tip 7: Set a Cadence of Communication Did you know that in any orchestra, the most important member is actually the conductor? The individual musicians making up the orchestra may […]

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Ensure Solid Executive Sponsorship

Tip 6: Ensure Solid Executive Sponsorship Before you get busy with forming a relationship with your prospective business partner, you have to ask yourself this first: Are the higher-ups within […]

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Create a Contributions Matrix

Tip 5: Create a Contributions Matrix “Those who forget to prepare are preparing themselves to be forgotten.” This is a popular saying among coaches and productivity gurus, although I’m not […]

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Ensure a Three-Way Value Proposition

Tip 4: Ensure a Three-Way Value Proposition In an ideal world, altruism or selflessness – the capacity for doing something without expectation of anything in return except for the sheer […]

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Do a Proper Fit Analysis on Your Potential Partner

Tip 3: Do a Proper Fit Analysis on Your Potential Partner When choosing a partner for a relationship, any relationship, do you take the time to get to know them? […]

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Be Clear on Your Reason for Partnering

Tip 2: Be Clear on Your Reason for Partnering It can’t be emphasized enough how important it is to find your reason for partnering before you actually enter into the […]

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That's all!

That's all!