Beyond The Hype! Aren't you really in Partnership with Yourself?

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Beyond the Hype! Aren’t you really in Partnership with
Yourself?

Most of us think of partnerships as being a two-way street
that is with another person or an entity. I am referring to
partnership within yourself. What better partner can you get
to know, understand and trust than yourself?

Here are some criteria that may help improve your Self-
Partnership.

1. "If you don't know who you are you or where you’re going,
any path will take you there". Sioux Proverb

“Men don’t change. The only thing new in the world is the
history you don’t know.” Harry Truman, American President

“I’m an idealist: I don’t know where I’m going but I’m on my
way.” Carl Sandburg, American poet.

The better you understand your vision as to what you want the
better your partner will cooperate. It would be easier for your
partner to follow your road map than to try to think and guess
what's on your mind.

"The first rule for any successful strategy is to think."
EvanDudik

2. “The toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to
keep on being a success.” Irving Berlin, American
Composer, Theater arts 1958

If you're going to partner in a successful way you better have
commitments, trusts, distinct understandings, and clear
picture of your plans.

"The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas."
Linus Pauling

3. “Genius is that superior alchemy that changes the vices of
nature into the elements of destiny” Pierre Emmanuel (Noel
Mathieu) French writer, Buadelaire.

The old storyboard technique of Walt Disney as explained by
Mike Vance, of placing all of the animations and succession
on the wall may not be a bad idea so your partner can see
what you're thinking. This technique of sequential picturing
will stimulate other ideas.

4. Stick to your knitting", Tom Peters

“ Generally, the theories we believe we call facts and the
facts we disbelieve we call theories.” Felix Cohen.

If you're going to be innovative with your partner you better
have a better understanding his or her limitations and
perceptions. Don't create a losing situation with false and
unreal expectations.

5. Always think down board" Carl Segan

“Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting
two and two together to make five.” Arthur Koestler, British
Philosopher, The Act of Creation.

Don't try to out guess your partner. This isn't a chess game it
is a sharing game. Have a clear understanding of the shot
and long-term goals. In order to understand your partner
better and how he or she reacts, initiate more short-term
goals and see that response from the partner.

6. Tell me and I will forget; shown me and I may remember,
involve me and I will understand." Chinese proverb

"Give a man of fish and he eats today. Teach him how to fish
and he will never go hungry."

In order to become empowered with confidence it is a matter
of sharing responsibilities and delegation. Since you must
take equal risks that your partner then it behooves each of
the share all experiences. This includes the trauma and
rewards.

7. A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the
world" John LeCarre

“Basic research is when I’m doing what I don’t know I’m
doing.” Wernher Von Braun, German Scientist, in The Faber
Book of Aphorisms, 1964

Don't get stuck behind the desk or you'll lose total contact
with your partner's world.

8. I have a dream" Martin Luther King

“ A creative person needs a certain amount of insecurity to
maintain that fine edge. You don’t have any control over it.”
Walter Egan, American rock musician.

Are you in sync with the dreams, visions, innovations,
creativity, expectations, perceptions, strategies and a host of
other thoughts of your partner?

9. No organization functions in a vacuum" Leonnd Goodstein

“ It is explained that all relationships require a little give and
take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give
and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our grave
exhausted, we are told that we didn’t give enough.” Quinten
Crsip, Bristish writer, How To Become a Virgin 1981.

In a world of desensitization and the dehumanizing of human
contact you better have direct contact and understanding in
person with your partner. The competition is vicious and
evasive enough without creating the feeling of isolation with
in the partner

10. Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance"
unknown

“ Time is a circus always packing up and moving away.” Ben
Hecht, American screenwriter.

We have heard the comment location, location, location.
There's also the concept of timing and timing. This is critical
in a global transitional exploding world of change. Change is
so dramatic and quick that strategic partnerships must be in
total command and responsive mode at a moment's notice.

If this criteria frightens you this is the first positive step
towards successful partnerships with yourself.

"Most of us live in a cage and if we are lucky we can reach
out beyond the bars and touch somebody" Marcus Aurelius

How did this stimulate a business? Continuous division and
multiplication of meanings stimulates innovation. How?
Instead of sticking to the one definition given to a word you
allow the expansion in your thinking and stimulate the
entrepreneurial creativity within you.

One company grew and divided rapidly used this technique
which allowed each separate division to become ultimately
independent. To set it’s own business format instead of one
prescribed formula, used by the parent company. After all
one formula for success does not fit everything.

A second concept of smallness was to allow room for rapid
advancement and managerial growth, further stimulating
enterprise.

A third concept was keep departments small and
sharpened to one direction and activity or product. This
allowed for closer relationships with management, workers
and customers, instead of a massive over burdened
corporation.

Then finally a fourth premise was the distribution of authority.
Instead of having to go to a hierarchy as in some
corporations it is was only confined to this separate
company. This avoided inter-company factions and
competition since it was a separate entity free to compete in
an open market, thus no inter-departmental or division rivalry
or even envy. The interesting point is when this separate
company expanded then a new cell company was formed
from the main component, thus the continuous process of cell
division.