Four Reasons You NEED Relationships to Thrive, Today and Every Day

Posted on September 16th, 2010 by Keith Ferrazzi

1.    You need to make a choice -- wake up and stop being a sheep. Choose to care about your business, the work you do, the people you do it with. No, I mean really care.

2.    You need to stand for something, to do your work with a purpose larger than yourself - as a cause - that makes you happier, more passionate, and what you do more meaningful. . .  Because happy, passionate, meaningful people - and companies - create extraordinary, profitable products.

3.    You need to triumph over your lizard brain -- the part that wants you to conform and avoid standing apart from the crowd, that keeps you from sharing and connecting with others, not doing or learning new things, but playing it safe. The stronger support you have in place, the easier is it to fight Godzilla off.

4.    How large your network is or how many relationships you have with important people doesn't matter -- a real relationship master knows how to leverage the network they have today to make ideas happen and get things done. Working with others to produce value rules the day’s agenda.

What step can you take today to make your relationships thrive?

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  1. You (ewe?) need to pull the wool from over your eyes -- see things and people (and yourself) for what they are.

  2. Christopher Kane says:
    October 7, 2010 at 7:45 am
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    I am currently reading "Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices " by Paul Lawrence. Have you had a chance to read it?
    Speaks of Four Innate Drives: Acquire, Bond, Learn (Understand), and Defend (Protect). This fits in well with Steven Reiss's "Who Am I?" sixteen basic motivators: Power, Status, Family, Sex, Food, ... and even Jung's psychological archetypes: Warrior, Lover, Magician, King.

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