# Business Partnerships **Domain:** Enterprise / Relationships **Doc Type:** Concept Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **Business Partnerships** is structured cooperation in which people or organizations combine resources, judgment, reputation, and complementary strengths around shared goals. ## Mechanism and Practice Partnership makes vulnerability productive when expectations are clear and trust is earned through conduct. The strongest alliances create value for both sides and join affection or mutual respect to competence and agreement. ## Relationships - **Related concepts:** [[wiki/Trust|Trust]] · [[wiki/Teamwork|Teamwork]] · [[wiki/Social Capital|Social Capital]] ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > “Business can be done in the arena of the heart. Building inward, with trust and affection, can replace the gladiatorial model of commerce. Partnerships built on love tend to last.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *Leadership, Trust, and the Architecture of Partnership - Livestream (Nov 2015)* [[reminders/Love/Partnerships Built on Love Tend to Last by Bryant McGill|Partnerships Built on Love Tend to Last by Bryant McGill]] > “Intimacy and trust are the human foundations of business. Every enterprise depends on people exposing some of their time, judgment, reputation, or resources to one another. Business at its heart is relationship.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *Intimacy, Trust, and the Human Foundations of Business - Livestream (Jun 2016)* [[reminders/Love/Business at Its Heart Is Relationship by Bryant McGill|Business at Its Heart Is Relationship by Bryant McGill]]