Alliances & Partnerships Archives

Collaboration is everywhere: 3 ways to accelerate

Collaboration is everywhere: We are approaching a collaborative networked economy where no company can go it alone. Partnerships will become of greater importance than they already are today; at least, […]

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Practice makes perfect

Last week I had a conversation with my son Laurens about the differences and similarities between sports coaching and executive coaching. Laurens started to coach the women eight competition team […]

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How doing less can lead to better results

On the Camino to Santiago de Compostela back in 2013, I walked 900 km in 28 days. This weekend I just returned from walking 275 km on the Camino in […]

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We need to become a networked organization, or we will no longer exist.

“No company can go it alone.” This is the opening sentence of the book “Alliance Advantage”* by Yves Doz and Gary Hamel, written in 1998. It was a valid statement […]

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Innovation, Collaboration and Intellectual Property: Can they Coexist?

To be successful innovation requires many organizations to collaborate in strategic alliances & partnerships. Is it, in this open business world, still possible to safeguard your intellectual property? On the […]

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Your Personal Investment in Business Collaborations

How personal are your business collaborations? In this question it might seem that the words ‘personal’ and ‘business’ contradict each other. After all, business collaborations are always between businesses, or […]

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Understanding expectations in a collaboration

When was the last time you were crystal clear to your counterpart about the expectations you had about him/her? I believe that in general, we make too many assumptions in […]

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Unintended offending communication

Last week I wrote about “Effective leadership behaviors” and made the parallel with the leadership behavior in the UK with regards to the Brexit development. In my newsletters and workshops, […]

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Leaving your partner gracefully

Everything changes and so do partnerships. When starting with a partnership, you might have a long duration in mind. However, circumstances may change in a way that asks for a […]

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Refocussing the three P’s of work

In my younger days, I sometimes used to say that work needed to have the “3 P’s” to be in balance: it needed to bring Pleasure, to have a level […]

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We don’t need a contract, we need trust

Can you have a successful collaboration without trust? I mean any collaboration: with another company, with a colleague, inside a team, with your boss or with your subordinates. Can these […]

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Ready for your next collaboration? Take a walk!

While catching up on email after a week of walking the Camino with my son, I had a short email conversation which gave me the nagging feeling that someone thought […]

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