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Chapter
8: How Do You Find The Right Partners?
by
Nelson Tan
It’s a good thing you have gone through all that mental
treatment in the past 7 chapters, because now that you are done
and got over with all issues concerning the mindset, character,
personality and such, choosing the right partners has only become
a matter of knowing what technical expertise these people and
you yourself have with which all of you can fruitfully contribute
into the work and the business.
By the way, we want to highlight there are 2 types of partners
involved. Your Masterminding partners may get together
for a brainstorming session, but they won’t necessarily
work with you. Your working partners are your business
partners and brothers-in-arms. When your Masterminding partners
are also your working partners, you all will go through thick
and thin happily.
Okay, the ‘Who you are’ matters are settled. Now it’s
about ‘What you have’.
4
Types Of Things You Always Have
What you have can be broken down into 4 categories, short for
R.I.C.E.
Based on a popular Chinese quote, “Those who have capital,
contribute capital; those who have effort, contribute effort,”
we can further break down what you have as both tangible
and intangible.
So ‘I’, very easily, stands for ‘Investment’.
When some of your partners do not have the monetary means to take
up the role of an investor, can you take over? Do you know someone
out there who may have the interest to take over?
It’s a good guess you think ‘R’ stands for ‘Resources’.
All your resources comprise of not just tools, but also
your creativity (ideas) and availability (time), for
without your availability, you won’t have the time to harness
the tools. Without creativity, you can’t discover new tools
and methods. What resources do you have? Are they relevant to
your Masterminding project? What about your partners?
‘E’
might as well represents ‘Effort’. It also stands
for ‘Expertise’. All the tools can be laid in front
of you but they are useless if you don’t know how
to operate them. Can you take the necessary timeout to
learn? If progress is imperative, can you find the right partner
to do the task for you?
‘C’
stands for ‘Contacts’. If there is anything lacking
in ‘R’, ‘I’ and ‘E’ and you
can’t solve it on your own, you must immediately seek the
assistance of someone, even possibly outside the Masterminding
group, to help you get the job done on an impromptu basis. Your
partners will know this ‘someone’ (who knows someone…)
and can offer some recommendations.
Time
Vs. Money
There: R.I.C.E. Now people commonly say that ‘time is money’.
There are 4 types of intricate relationships between ‘time’
and ‘money’ and they can be represented as 4 types
of people in a quadrant.
If
this sounds funny, it must be you…Anyway, it’s good
to check, according to the quadrant, which situations your potential
working partners are in right now, so that you have the hindsight
to plan the roles of who can do what most effectively in the long
term.
Chemistry
Vs. Synergy
We wrote about ‘Chemistry’ in Chapter
2,
and then there is ‘Synergy’ in the technical sense:
the seamless coordination between partners with different skillsets
and expertise.
When my strength and your strength combine, we attain
synergy. When both of us are mediocre at doing things,
we reach disaster! So it is during work, in the
daily running of the business, that you and your working partners
begin to find out from one another how each one have performed
in his/her assigned task or whether you can detect grouchiness
or consistent enjoyment. Prepare to form a suitable role for your
partners.
Ultimately, sometimes when it comes to getting a job done,
we all just have to roll up our sleeves and get out of our comfort
zones and get our hands dirty. It’s just that this
undeniable fact works behind the scene and doesn’t normally
reflect in those marketing messages that flood your Inbox…
And you think reaching a five-figure-per-month income, online
or off, within your first 90 days is easy? Well, for some geniuses,
they can work out the formulas. For ordinary folks like us, Masterminding
is surely the most favorable ‘get-rich-slow’ method
employed by Humankind.
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Nelson
Tan is the architect behind Internet
Mastery Center (http://www.internetmasterycenter.com): Create
Your Online Profits with the RIGHT Products, Environment and Mindset!
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