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What brings them together?

What brings them together?. According to the signed pre-marriage contract, Douglas is obliged, “in the case of cheat , to pay his dear wife 2.8 million dollars for every year spent together.”. The Turning Point. Building Bridges: Collaboration and Partnership. 27 January, 2010

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What brings them together?

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  1. What brings them together? According to the signed pre-marriage contract, Douglas is obliged, “in the case of cheat, to pay his dear wife 2.8 million dollars for every year spent together.”

  2. The Turning Point Building Bridges: Collaboration and Partnership 27 January, 2010 Anglia Ruskin University

  3. Why are these people here?

  4. 27 January 2008, Davos, Switzerland

  5. The power of “collaborative innovation”

  6. “Collaborative political leadership”

  7. Benjamin Zander

  8. “The world’s most competitive man”

  9. “May the forces be with you in 2008” “The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy” Michael E. Porter

  10. Regard everybody as a competitor! “Competition for profits goes beyond established industry rivals to include four other competitive forces as well: customers, suppliers, potential entrants, and substitute products.” Michael E. Porter

  11. Competition between partners They had the high-profile dispute not because their joint ventures had not made money but because they could not handle their financial success.

  12. Collaboration in January 2008 Entrepreneurship and strategy in China: Why “Porter’s five forces” may not be

  13. Business Purpose (The moral force of a business) Business Climate (The temporal force of a business) Business Leader (The command force of a business) Business Location (The spatial force of a business) Business Organisation (The organisational force of a business) Alternative five forces

  14. Management Challenges for the 21st Century “Today businesses grow through alliances, all kinds of dangerous liaisons and joint ventures, which, by the way, very few people understand.” Peter F. Drucker, “father of modern management”, 1995

  15. What are the available forms? Wholly-owned Joint ventures Equity commitment Low-risk alliances Co-operatives The single biggest source of problems lies in the fact that we use the mentality of a wholly-owned business to deal with other forms of business arrangements. Relationship intimacy

  16. How to establish a partnership? Essential activities • Assessment: motives, credibility and capabilities; introduction, investigation and engagement. • Negotiation: the team, the negotiation, controlling emotions, thinking of both sides, and adapting behaviours. • Making the decision: type of arrangement, quantitative evaluation and qualitative factors.

  17. How to succeed in a partnership? Essential activities Level 3: Related practices and values -Training and learning Level 2: Immediately relevant practices -Communicating and balancing Level 1: Symbols and irrelevant practices -Tolerating and ignoring

  18. “Before marriage know your partner’s weaknesses; in marriage use your partner’s strengths.”- Chinese proverb

  19. “Spend the first half of the night thinking about yourself; spend the second half of the night thinking about your partner.”- Chinese proverb

  20. Without expectations, you will be strong; with tolerance, you will be big.- Chinese proverb

  21. “Without self-interest, your interests succeed.”- Lao Tzu, 500 BC

  22. “Virtue is the root; wealth is the consequence.”- Confucius, 500 BC

  23. “We may compare the superior man to an archer. When the archer fails to hit the target, he blames himself for being unskilled.”- Confucius, 500 BC

  24. Building Bridges:Collaboration and Partnership 27 January, 2010 Anglia Ruskin University

  25. Thank you all! For more information, Contact: wei.wang@uk.2wchina.com Or Have a signed book for £5 (retailed at £16.99)

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