FORMING partnerships is part and parcel of entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurs often ask whether a prospective partner is compatible. The basic understanding of compatibility is often seen when two partners “get along” or “bring luck” to each other.

BaZi consultants find that clients often give little consideration to the question as to whether they will have a good partnership with a particular person, or whether the parties can actually profit together and how long the partnership should go on for, or even what form it should take. Most importantly, they also rarely give a thought as to whether they themselves are suitable candidates for a partnership.

Getting a partnership rolling

The first step must really be to ask yourself if you are the kind of person who can handle being in a partnership. Some people simply do not have a collaborative gene in them — working together with someone is not something that comes naturally to them. But often times we rarely consider ourselves in the question, and instead like to put the onus on the other person. In BaZi, a consultant has to consider the question from both perspectives.

You need to ask yourself if you actually need a partner, and the reason for it. Some people don’t need a partner but simply want someone on board because they don’t want to do all the work. In BaZi, the general rule is that Day Masters who are strong do not need partners as much as Day Masters who are weak, although there are exceptions to the rule.

Assuming the person can engage in partnership, an additional consideration is whether or not they are suited for enduring partnerships, or if they should adopt a more freewheeling approach to partnerships. Clients must be open to possibilities in partnerships and also to an appreciation that a partnership can take many forms, with varying degrees of commitment. Partnerships can manifest in many forms, like equity partnerships, joint venture, sleeping partners, relationships of convenience and one-off collaborations.

Assuming your BaZi chart allows you to engage in partnerships, what kind of person should you partner with? A business partner or business partners should complement you based on the “structure” of both your charts. For example, if you are an “ideas” person (Hurting Officer Structure), then your partner should probably be an “operations” person (Direct Wealth or 7 Killings Structure). If your talents lie in interacting with customers or front-facing tasks, then a suitable partner would be a back-end type. It doesn’t matter how well you get along — there can be no lasting success or successful partnership if one party isn’t hungry for success and the other party is overly ambitious.

The next big step

Then, we come to the question of timing. Is it the right time for you to embark on a partnership? Here, the individual’s luck, as well as that of the prospective partner, is an important consideration in the equation when it comes to the success of a partnership.

When both parties are in favourable Luck Pillars at the time of their partnership, and the Luck Pillars indicate opportunities through partnership, then the partnership is likely to be very successful and profitable. On the other hand, success comes in many forms, and sometimes people achieve success through partnerships simply by betting on the right horse. If you are in not so good luck, but your chart allows you to use partnerships and you happen to chance upon a partner who is about to enter good luck, riding on the coat-tails of that person makes sense.

Clearly, trust and trustworthiness are but small factors to take into account, everything considered. A person may be very trustworthy but if they are in bad luck, their trustworthiness isn’t going to help either of you make money or achieve success, and vice versa.

Smart partnerships do not just involve partnering the right person, in the right kind of collaboration or venture, and at the right time. It also involves managing the partnership so that should it come to an end, it is done in a professional, amicable and minimally disruptive manner. Log on to www.joeyyap.com to see clearly how you can forge your own formidable partnership.

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Datuk Joey Yap is the world’s leading Chinese Metaphysics consultant and bestselling author of more than 160 books which have sold over four million copies worldwide. He is chief consultant of the Joey Yap Consulting Group and founder of Mastery Academy of Chinese Metaphysics. His nearly two decades of professional consultancy includes working with Microsoft, Sime Darby, UEM, Prudential and Citibank. He has students in more than 30 countries.

This story first appeared in TheEdgeProperty.com pullout on Oct 28, 2016, which comes with The Edge Financial Daily every Friday. Download TheEdgeProperty.com pullout here for free.

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