WHO'S ON YOUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS?

Whether you know and acknowledge it or not, your business
can only grow with the advice, support, ideas and help of
your Board of Directors. The poet observed that “no man is
an island” and none of us can achieve anything close to
our best or highest success if we try to do it by
ourselves.
I'm always amused when I hear that Sir Edmund Hillary was
the first to scale Mt Everest, or that Neil Armstrong was
the first to walk on the moon. Yes, they were the
individuals who raised the flag, but those achievements
were not accomplished alone. Both Charles Lindbergh, the
first to fly solo from New York to Paris, and Steve
Fawcett who flew around the world solo before his untimely
death, did it in planes they did not build and with the
support of thousands of people who made their flights
possible.
Every successful entrepreneur has dozens of people
cheering them on. Every successful endeavor is the result
of many people working in concert, giving advice, sharing
the vision and encouraging us. We need our "partners" in
success.
Who sits on your "board of directors?" Who advises you and
tells you the truth? Who opens the doors and makes the
introductions? Who gives you ideas and helps you solve the
challenges? Who is your coach?
If you don’t have a “board” get one! Ask friends and
colleagues to meet with you at least once a month as your
sounding board. If you don’t have a coach, get one!
Remember the poet – “no man (or woman) is an island.” Or,
as the Beatles put it even more memorably, “We get by with
a little help from our friends.” Make sure you have a
Board of Directors!

Quotes of the Week
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment
to improve the world." -- Anne Frank

"We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in
our imagination of ourselves. The greatest tragedy that
can befall us is to go unimagined." -- N. Scott Momaday

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the
service of others." -- Mahatma Gandhi

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is
the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing."
-- Theodore Roosevelt