Uhh.. I don't see how that is a win for the "tree"?
Unless it just likes the feeling of a rock "rubbing against its trunk"
We hear it so often: “this is a true win-win” or even “win-win-win” and whatever program is presented it’s suppose to be the “better win” over all the others which should be the losers in the face of this winner.
As a whole culture we are obsessed with winning. As if life is some sort of sport competition in witch a few win and the rest are losers. Unfortunately this is the situation when it comes to most of our economies today.
The problem is: there is only win-win or lose-lose… there is no win-lose.
We are obsessed with the idea that competition is the best economic engine for growth, success and innovation.
But competition is built on the win-lose concept by definition: there only can be one winner. Everybody else are losers.
And even though it already has been proven that win-win cooperation produces better and bigger results faster we are hanging on to the competitive model.
We are obsessed with winning. Winning presents itself to us as being the peak of our existence even when it ultimately will hurt us and turn all of us into losers.
We are so deeply programmed in this winning culture that even the losers of this game will defend this way of life because “I might be – some day – on the winners end” they say.
In network marketing I have heard a lot of talk about win-win and it’s easily presented in that way. But why are there so many losers?
Because it’s about relationships… and it’s only about relationships not about products, compensation plans, timing, leads or how many people you are able to sign up.
It is all about “building relationships” and we use this term all the time.
Building real relationships is not quickly done through a certain step-for-step process or through a process of “duplication”.
Building relationships requires making the other person real. In everything they are, not just in how many others they can bring to our business.
Because when it comes to relationships there is only win-win or lose-lose; we only fool ourselves into the illusion that we might be the winner but when the relationships fails there are and will only be losers.
A true win-win has genuine balance, with parity and equity for both parties, it’s the only outcome with real integrity. It protects and enhances the relationship and it engenders trust, freedom, creativity, success and positive fulfillment.
Of course that’s the theory anyway. In real life this means real effort, not a “quick fix” or a “pretended” win-win but one that maximizes the chances for everybody involved.
And that requires more time, more effort and more genuineness… invested in the people you are working with.
Network marketing gives us the opportunity to practice real relationships and when we do that the real power of this business model that John Kalench called “The Greatest Opportunity in the History of the World” starts to truly shine.
Making each other real… what a concept!
I am looking forward to meeting you some day… let me know that you were here.
