Cooperate
As businesses evolve, growth depends not just on execution, but on how well the system aligns across People, Processes, and Products—both internally and through external partnerships.
The Role of Cooperate
In the Business Growth Assessment, Cooperate enables systems to grow together. This may involve co-marketing alliances, delivery partnerships, licensing strategies, team integrations, or process outsourcing—anything that multiplies capacity without multiplying complexity.
This stage also reinforces Mutual Accountability, ensuring that collaboration is built on clarity, trust, and shared outcomes.
Cooperate in Practice
When this stage is active, growth is no longer limited by what the business can deliver alone. New opportunities emerge through aligned relationships, and capacity scales in ways that feel strategic—not stressful.
When it’s skipped, systems drift out of sync. People, processes, and products become misaligned, and scaling creates fragmentation instead of momentum.
A well-balanced system ensures: