Let's rethink corporations with a partnering core
With the Partnering Corporation Think Tank Network we aim to advance organizational design and management practices for a partnering business world. It is meant for driving a meaningful discussion across academia, practice and sectors to advance the thinking about partnering as not only a social, but an economic paradigm.
If you enjoy rethinking new possibilities, practices and paradigms in management and organizational design, join in - we are just about to embark!
From a Me to a All-of-us Economy
Buckminster Fuller
From hierarchies to ecosystems: A space to challenge the default logic of management and co-create a partnering one from within.
The Partnering Corporation Think Tank invites changemakers, managers, leaders, entrepreneurs, academics, students and thinkers to explore how to reshape the structures, processes, and metrics of today’s organizations through the lens of partnering economic logic.
The global cost of our competitive economic paradigm is no longer just material—it’s relational.
Across industries and societies, we’re witnessing a deep erosion of trust, connection, and shared humanity. Though less visible than environmental degradation, this growing relational poverty is becoming just as existential as climate change.
It’s time to initiate a paradigm shift—from the inside out.
The Partnering Corporation Think Tank Network invites us to reimagine organizations with a partnering core—where care, kindness, belonging, and co-creation for the benefit of all take the lead.
Let’s build an economy rooted in our greatest human gift: the relational capacity to co-create—not just results, but peace, equity, and sustainability for us all: The value of we.
Born from a mission-driven commitment by Human Facts AG · The Value of We, this Think Tank is an open invitation to take part in shaping what comes next by asking the bold question:
“What if partnering—not competition—became the core principle of corporations?”
The Partnering Corporation Charter - Our letter of intent
This initial Partnering Corporation Charter is meant as a normative guiding framework for driving the discussion in our Think Tank across academia and practice, to advance the thinking about partnering as not only a social, but an economic paradigm.
No economic growth without advancing healthy human relatedness
As a partnering corporation, we see the relationships with our stakeholders and the interdependencies we are embedded in not as a means to be used and exploited for creating corporate business gains.
On the contrary: We see it as our purpose to serve this net of human relatedness as the highest common good of our shared humanity through our business activities.
In that, partnering is for us not only a behavior. It is our worldview, attitude, value, and our operational and organizational principle - in short, it’s our purpose, core role, and identity.
As a partnering corporation, we commit to become a driving force for healthy, stable and resilient human relatedness in everything we do – be it in our direct interaction with our stakeholders or indirectly through the strategic priorities, products or services, systems and processes we design. [...]