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There’s more science to a great partnership than many people realise, here’s what works. Every successful business partnership tells two stories simultaneously: one of complementary [...]

There is a persistent belief in the corporate world that acquisition is the fastest route to partnership. Buy the capability, inherit the relationships, accelerate the strategy. On paper, it is [...]

Most business partnerships don’t fail because of a bad idea, quite the opposite. They fail because the behaviours that made the early days electric become stale then the fault lines creep [...]

The most expensive business decision isn’t the wrong hire, the wrong market, or the wrong product………..It’s waiting too long to address the wrong partnership dynamic. We’ve [...]

Background: A mid-sized European food manufacturing business, supplying multiple retail chains across the continent, embarked on an ambitious growth strategy. Leadership aimed to expand into new [...]

Now you’re the ceiling stopping it reaching £40M The realisation arrives quietly, usually around 2am on a Tuesday. You’re lying awake thinking about the factory breakdown that cost [...]

Four interventions that separate viable businesses from terminal decline The phone call always starts the same way. A CEO, hesitant. An equity partner, frustrated. A family business owner, [...]