The Power of We
Succeeding Through Partnerships
Chapter One
The Power of Partnerships
Getting from Me to We
Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.
-Henry Ford (1863-1947)
American industrialist
This book is about a principle of leadership that I call the Power
of Partnerships. It's a simple philosophy based on putting aside our individual
concerns in order to work together toward a greater good. For
business people like me, the Power of Partnerships can produce dramatic
benefits for the bottom line. Whenever managers, employees,
communities, shareholders-and even competitors-join forces in pursuit
of shared goals, everybody wins.
It's an approach to leadership that is not divisive, but unifying; not
competitive, but collaborative; not based on a zero-sum philosophy of
scarcity, but on abundance-t ... read full excerpt from The Power of We: Succeeding Through Partnerships ebook
