Mastermind Your Success!

"Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team."   John Maxwell

Ever heard the expression,   "It is not what you know but who you know"?   It is normally used when people are looking for a job.  Have you ever paid real close attention to the way it reads (and sounds)?  On one hand, it sounds like favoritism and nepotism.  Even though you may have no clue or skills for the job, as long as you know the right people, you can get in.  Yikes! Read the other way, it says just the opposite.  That you may be gifted, skilled and excellent but unless you know the right people, you wont get in.   And again...yikes! Having hired 100's of people over my career, I know that people I was familiar with and that had some of the skills necessary for the job, had a decided advantage over the unknown candidate with the better resume.  It may not always be fair, but in the big corporate world of making widgets, that's just the way it is! As it relates to your goals, dreams and purpose, you have to apply a different philosophy in building your team.   There is a big difference between getting employees for a company and finding partners to be part of your inner circle to help you Pursue Your Greatness.  When you are making widgets...you hire.  When you are pursuing destiny...you select.  Napoleon Hill called this collective of invaluable people your Mastermind Alliance. Take a look at your LinkedIn connections.  How many of them would you hire?  Better question.  How many of them would you select as part of your Mastermind Alliance? I remember I wanted to be a performer (notice I didn't say singer!) when I was younger.  A cross between Michael Jackson and Prince.  Some friends  and I were trying to get a band together and I was going to be the lead singer.  We needed a drummer so we placed an ad in a local paper that musicians read .  Three candidates responded, but only one of them had a set of drums. We picked him.  You can guess the rest - he was awful.   Hey, my goal was not to be a garage band, it was to be an international superstar.  I realized at that moment, that you don't pick people because you know them, or because they have something you need.  You select them for their ability to help you...   Mastermind Your Success!    Pursue Your Greatness...until next time, I wish you Money, Power, Success!