The Squirrel Effect
An industrious black-tailed ground squirrel has his home beneath a stump not far from my office window. I've been watching him squirrel away provisions for winter. He reminds me of people I've worked with.Starting his journey by standing tall on the stump, the squirrel hurriedly looks side to side. When he's certain it is safe he leaps into the grass, jumping then running to a group of nuts nestled beneath a medium-size pine. There he briefly pauses to make his choice.
Selecting one pine nut in his teeth, he darts back to the stump with a run-jump motion. Once again standing tall, he looks for competitors or predators before quickly popping his prized provision into his nest and beginning the process all over again.Like that squirrel, people often hide what they consider important to their personal survival in the corporate world. It's called information. Hording bits and pieces, they act as if information alone is a work-life sustaining nutrient. The more information nuggets they have, the safer or more powerful they think they'll be.
And while those nuggets might help someone survive in a corporate culture where information is a bartered commodity, long term it won't help them thrive. Here's why.They're locked in old thinking about power and success, seeing them as the ability to render authority or influence over someone or something. They think information gives them control. But rules are changing. People don't trust people who want to control them, who want to horde what's needed for everyone's survival, or who play a corporate game where there can be just one or two winners.
People withhold their ideas and discretionary efforts in cultures like that.There's a new power emerging in the work realm called trust. Trust is critical in an era where intellectual property is the competitive edge for both companies and countries. Companies need the best ideas they can get to prosper, and the best people passionately working to make them happen. Results of human intellect will bring 21st century profits to the bottom line; technological and scientific breakthroughs to the world. They'll also bring personal satisfaction and meaningful work to those involved.But to do that, information must be shared.
Shared information multiples as it reminds us of the Italian proverb: "All the brains are not in one head." Here people realize lighting the next candle doesn't diminish the flame of the original one, and information is critical in lighting ideas, opening possibilities and creating new horizons for themselves and their companies.If you want to be winning at working, realize your power is in trusting and doing, not in just knowing and certainly not in hording. Trust builds a larger universe of relationships where a big idea comes from two smaller ones, a shared problem brings imaginative solutions, and a common vision produces uncommon results. Like the carbon atom that has the capacity to form graphite or diamonds, so do you. You will create more work diamonds operating with trust and eliminating the squirrel effect.(c) 2004 . All rights reserved..
Owning Beautiful, Sparkling Diamonds and Making Money From Home, Just Became a Lot Easier
(ContentDesk) December 7, 2005 -- Canadian Diamond Traders Inc. (CDT) is a Canadian based company dedicated to the distribution of loose diamonds at about half the retail value. They have recently launched an online system, at http://www.canadian-diamond-traders.com/projectname, making it easy for anyone to acquire diamonds, and to make money. Using the newly launched, Free program at http://www.canadian-diamond-traders.com/projectname, professionals and novices can acquire Beautiful, sparkling, diamonds at less than retail value.Canadian Diamond Traders Inc. (CDT) is a Canadian based company dedicated to the distribution of loose diamonds at about half the retail value.
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Owning Beautiful, Sparkling Diamonds and Making Money From Home, Just Became a Lot Easier
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New Age Diamonds' Jewellery Support Program
(ContentDesk) October 26, 2005 -- New Age Diamonds' Jewellery Support Program offers fantastic discount for their yellow cultured diamonds in all tints to jewelers eager to apply their skills and imagination to create jewellery with New Age Diamonds.The main aim of this program is to let individual jewelers and small-to-mid jewellery companies realize their creative ideas in unique designs using cultured fancy colored diamonds giving that opportunities due to their colors and relatively low price. The other goal is popularization of cultured diamonds among the customers all over the world, since the best promotion is the elegant and attractive - but still affordable - jewellery.There are only a few conditions:- this special discount is valid for jewelers;- jewelers have to accept
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Buying Jewelry For Your Business Part 3 Buying Gemstone Jewelry
Whether you presently own a retail or web based business and are looking for an additional profit center or you are thinking of starting a business, jewelry is a "no-brainer" choice for a proven product category. The buying public, (particularly women) never tires of jewelry as the choices in color, materials, finishes and styles are endless and innovations are continual. Every generation reinvents jewelry for itself in much the same way that it reinvents music and fashion. Styles change but the basic facts remain the same. If you are a seasoned professional, please consider the following a refresher course.
To the new comer, use this information as a foundation for your ongoing jewelry education.The Facts About Gemstone JewelryNatural gemstones are found in nature. Laboratory-created stones, as the name implies, are made in a laboratory. These stones, which also are referred to as laboratory-grown, {name of manufacturer} - created, or synthetic, have essentially the same chemical,...
Buying Jewelry For Your Business Part 3 Buying Gemstone Jewelry
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