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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.