The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Tom Freiling On its face, ...

Forming successful partnerships is like composing a piece of music for an orchestra. Fundamentally, each section needs to work well together, but that's not enough. Each stage of the process can ...

Instead of viewing this series of events as a setback to your original aspirations, embrace this opportunity to improve upon ...

Discover how partnerships handle decision making through consensus, democracy, or delegation, and the impact of business structure on these processes.

In the journey of entrepreneurship, finding the right business partner can make all the difference between success and stagnation. In over two decades of business coaching, I have seen business ...

I’ve been thinking about the alchemy of impactful partnerships a lot lately: We’ve been lucky to have some amazing partnership wins over the last decade — and plenty of failures, too. Over time, my ...

Keith Richards and Mick Jagger. Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger. Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard. What do these famous partnerships have in common? They lasted a long ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. In the ever-evolving ...

Today, more than ever before, there are immense benefits for large contractors to team with small businesses. Supporting small businesses in government contracting is vital for the nation’s citizenry ...

Business partnerships can seem like an ideal arrangement — combining talents, sharing risks, and pooling resources to build something greater than what one person could achieve alone. The allure of ...

A strong business partnership is based on trust, shared values, and a commitment to the good of the company. Let's look at the 10 most iconic business partnerships and what made them so successful. In ...

Charlie Weaver, a self-deprecating political pro, will end a 20-year run atop the Minnesota Business Partnership over the summer. Weaver, 65, and the high-profile business organization announced ...