Bilfinger Berger Magazine 1/2009

Finding a partner is one thing. Building a sustainable partnership which delivers long-term mutual benefit is quite another. This is a concept equally applicable in our business relationships as it is to our private lives. Our daily interaction with clients and colleagues is most successful when we deliver a working arrangement based on trust and a common cooperation.

Partnership is not a ‘soft’ option for avoiding the difficult issues. Successful partnership allows us to constructively address and resolve challenging issues in a professional and cooperative manner, and which allows all of the parties to attain their individual objectives.

Successful partnerships demand honesty, commitment and an assumption of responsibility. They succeed through hard work, through understanding and empathy with the other party, and very often through appropriate compromise.

Working in partnership is an opportunity to achieve and to share so much more than working alone. This issue of our magazine takes a closer look at some of these opportunities.

I hope that you will be inspired to seek strong and effective partnerships in your daily lives.

Yours truly,
KENNETH REID
Member of the Executive Board of Bilfinger Berger AG

Bilfinger Berger Magazine 1/2009