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14PARTNERSHIPS: RELEASINGTHE POWER OF UNLIKE MINDS

THE SECOND ASPECT OF ZERO SPACE ORGANIZATIONS is that they are built on a fluid structure of partnerships. This involves an enormous change in mindset. After all, the corporate mindset has always held that the only way to succeed is to be independent of everyone and everything, to handle the whole industrial chain from A to Z, to leave nothing to chance, to do it all.

This was particularly true of many of the great industrial giants. In the automobile industry, with its revolutionary production line, companies literally did everything from scratch, right down to selling the car to the customer. Many multinationals grew large thanks to their ability to turn in-house innovations into market ...

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