Any business affects other people. For example, finding employees in a team: the price of finding the right people and keeping them in your company is not so small. If consistency is achieved between thoughts, plans, deeds, in other words, between the problem, vision, and result, then all team members will have an understanding.
How to make competitors partners?
If I am you and a competitor equally answer the question “Why do I do my business?”, - then close answers to “Why?” you can be made partners.
If a person has a resource, and I have a skill, and our goal setting is the same, then this is a way to find interaction.