Lesson about partnerships

If you have someone you consider a partner in professional life, step back for a moment and think about whether it’s really a partner or not? After all it may just be a channel that feeds you with opportunities for doing great stuff. And if it is so, you need to think of it as such.

A partnership is reciprocal in nature. It means you have to play on even turf. You give something and you get something back. You share ideals, goals and ways of executing against them. If you can put a mark against each of those, you have got yourself a partner.