What can you learn about your business from Mangrove trees?

What are you doing to create a stable habitat for your business, so that it survives and thrives even in the harshest of environments?  Please watch this short video clip and then PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT!!! I am sure you have a great idea to share with everyone! (Comment link is below the video).

Note: Please excuse the sound of the wind in this video...we didn't have an external mic and no place to clip it if we did (tee hee). Another great lesson, sloppy success is better than no success!

Enjoy the Video!

Comments

[Lin Ennis]

Don't you ever take a break from work? ;-)

I *love* this analogy! And to "right protection" I would add the question, "Are you protecting the right island -- the money-making core of your business?" (Just because that's where I am with mine...what's important, and what's ancillary to that, simply 'related'?)

The Dec. 26, 2004 tsunami did as much damage as it did because developers "improving the land" took out the mangroves to offer better ocean views. I don't know how many got to enjoy those views, but 6000 or more people will never view anything ever again...

...which points out that if our business is a significant contribution to society, we are stewards and responsible for ramifications far beyond our own ken. (We have only to look at any sector of the mortgage fiasco to see how quickly everyone is to blame and everyone is hurt, even those who steered clear and kept their noses clean.)

And if our business is not a significant contribution to society, why are we fooling ourselves? Why are we pursuing it? No good can come of that! Get a job -- oops, no, ever there you are expected to "add value."

--Lin
www.letyourmortgagemakeyourich.com

[Maryjoan Tully]

Having a business flexible enough for you to work from Belize (or anywhere else in the world ) IS a way of protecting it. I also believe that one may never over-estimate the value of straight-from-the-heart expressions of appreciation to the people you attract to you & your business.
Aloha from Hawaii,
Maryjoan

[Curtis Walker]

The greatest long term success can be found by paying attention to nature. I am impressed by Lin's comment about the eradication of the mangroves to create ocean views and how ignoring their protective function lead to great destruction.

Network marketing businesses are people businesses, no matter what the product or service and every one is different. I think that if we pay attention to people's personality traits we can work with them in a natural way to ensure the greatest success for all.

I know we all talk about the importance of having a duplicable system in network marketing, and I think that system needs to also be flexible enough, like a living organism, if it is to not only survive but thrive.

We need to pay attention to people's personalities and as leaders coach them appropropriatley to help them to be the best they can be, and in turn helping our businesses to be the best they can be.

Curtis Walker
www.wtpowers.biz
Saludos desde México

[Curtis Walker]

The greatest long term success can be found by paying attention to nature. I am impressed by Lin's comment about the eradication of the mangroves to create ocean views and how ignoring their protective function lead to great destruction.

Network marketing businesses are people businesses, no matter what the product or service and every one is different. I think that if we pay attention to people's personality traits we can work with them in a natural way to ensure the greatest success for all.

I know we all talk about the importance of having a duplicable system in network marketing, and I think that system needs to also be flexible enough, like a living organism, if it is to not only survive but thrive.

We need to pay attention to people's personalities and as leaders coach them appropropriatley to help them to be the best they can be, and in turn helping our businesses to be the best they can be.

Curtis Walker
www.wtpowers.biz
Saludos desde México