Building Relationships - II
Issue #45 - Let Others Help You Achieve Success
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Welcome to Episode II in our new series - Building Relationships
Success will come more quickly and surely if you know how to make use of the education, experience, and the influence of others.
Most of the great initiatives I have embarked on were successful only because I was able to influence others and build relationships.
I am talking about people I have only met online and some whom I haven’t even seen their faces (ever).
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker believed his personal asset was his “ability to get other people” and the use of their brains in a friendly spirit of cooperation.
“If I exchange the dollar I have for the dollar you have, we both end up no better off than when we started. But if I exchange an idea for the idea you have, then we both end up twice as rich as we were. And teamwork is the means of multiplying our spiritual wealth to infinity.”
Remember that two or more people, working closely in an alliance in which they complement and support each other’s abilities, can always achieve more than one person alone.
The greatest achievements of our free enterprise system come from groups rather than individual enterprises.
But in seeking the help of others, you must be prepared to make an even trade. You can’t come empty-handed.
Thomas Edison’s greatness as an inventor resulted from his genius for organizing teams of individuals, each with far more knowledge in his own speciality than he possessed, for a common goal.
Lloyd Weeks of Salem, Illinois, is a mechanical engineer who conceived a unique idea for constructing oil tanks. But the idea needed money to put it into development. A neighbor, who was a successful dentist, didn’t have Weeks’ engineering know-how, but he had some money he had saved from his dental practice. Each contributed his resources into a business alliance that has netted each of them thousands of dollars in profits month after month.
It is absolutely essential that all members of an alliance share in its benefits.
Otherwise, the team will soon fall apart.
One evening, Henry Ford was walking through his plant and stopped to talk to a floor sweeper.
“Like your job?” Ford asked.
“Yep,” the janitor said, “but I’d like it better if you sold these metal filings, instead of throwing them away, and gave me part of the money.”
Ford put the idea into operation the next day. It saved the company a significant sum and earned a promotion for the janitor.
What do you need to achieve success? Who has it? What can you offer in return?
Maybe it’s exactly what someone else is seeking.
If so, you can pool your resources and make the fight for success much easier. As the old saying goes, “Ain’t none of us as smart as all of us.”
This Week’s Ponder
African proverb - “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
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Until next week,
Sam Femi, Founder, Seamless Life Africa
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