WINNING PATTERN REVEALED
Don’t you just hate the word “secret”? It’s seems like everybody has got a “secret” and everybody seems to want to sell the “secret”. I’m tired of it, people trying to make us think they know something we don’t know… how about you?
What I want to reveal, or I should say what I want to share is a winning pattern that I learned in 1971 from one of the great minds in history of American business, the great W. Clement Stone. Stone was really the guy who turned Napoleon Hill’s up and down career and brilliant study, “Think and Grow Rich” into a fortune. Stone was not insistent he was adamant in the value of a reference library, a Master Mind Alliance and leveraging the knowledge of others.
I mention this because I was personally trained by Stone in 1971 and it was his declaration that the short cut to success was OPM. Today most people think of OPM as other people money… to Stone OPM stood for other people’s MINDS. ‘This is no secret” I remember him saying to the class one day, “it’s just not utilized because most people are too lazy to read.” I think Stone’s statement is even truer today than it was in 1971.
The pattern that has forged the blessings we’ve experienced is based on mining the gold from the mind’s of others by reading. To help me sift through the overwhelming amount of material out there I’ve used a service for years called Executive Book Summaries. These nifty little 8 page reviews allowed me to identify which books were worth purchasing and studying for my business.
Stone was right. Reading is a pattern that created a habit that lead me to the crucial principles and provided a short cut he promised.
THE ONE THING THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING
Trust
After all the list building, social networking, blogging, tweets, etc. it comes down to trust.
Does the prospect trust you? If s/he does …it’s cha-ching 🙂 ….. if he doesn’t, too bad, so sad.
Trying to build a team?
If they trust you they will take your coaching… if they don’t …… nothing.
Covey’s book “The Speed of Trust” has had more to do with building organizations over 10,000 reps and millions of dollars in sales than anything else because trust is the one thing that changes everything.
What we don’t realize is most people use an incomplete plan that has been handed down for generations. When our plan is incomplete we can’t expect to get the results that we want.
This is the traditional business formula ~
Strategy X Execution = Results
Here’s Covey’s brilliant shift
Strategy x Execution x Trust = Results
An individual, a company or a team may have a brilliant strategy and a burning desire to execute the strategy but the end results will ultimately depend on the level of trust in both the customers and the reps driving the deal.
ECONOMICS
Trust has, always, a profound effect on 2 outcomes:
1. Speed
2. Cost
When trust declines speed goes down and cost goes up. Example? 9/11 ring a bell? What happened after 9/11? Cost more money and more time to travel because trust was down.
On the other hand as trust goes up the speed of growth increase and costs go down.
TRUST is the one thing that changes everything: increasing trust AND accelerating the speed of trust others have in you does reduce cost and increase productivity and sales dramatically.
Proof: There are probably 2 or 3 people you know who …..if they called and said…..’buy this’….you would. Right?
Imagine increasing the number of people dramatically who feel that way about you, your coaching, your suggestions. Would that make a difference in cost and sales?
What I learned in Covey’s book was how to accelerate the Speed of Trust, that there were 13 things that I could do to increase the velocity of trust.
Over the next few days I’ll break-down Covey’s book and show you step-by-step how to increase the Speed of Trust instantaneously…..how I took the material and applied it to our business.
Think of it as a ‘interactive’ book review.
So the ‘pattern’ that created my nick-name, The World’s Laziest Networker, is reading …..and I will share with you the key points in books that helped me find the ‘keys to the vault’ much faster and how to use them.
believe
Mark Januszewski
Hello Mark,
Here’s another nugget from you, a Really Large One!
Can hardly wait to learn more about this from you.
See, actually hear, you later today.
Thank you Mark … I really needed this today! I’m looking forward to the following articles you have for us on the topic of “Trust”. And thank you for the link to Soundview Executive Book Summaries. What a handy tool to have in my library!
~Cathleen
I can’t wait to see the breakdown. Should I put this on my must read list?
You’re absolutely right on about the “trust” factor. Without trust, there’s nothing and somewhere along the line, you’ve lost your soul if you ruin someone’s trust….
I checked out the Executive Book Summaries…..I love to read but it’s so time consuming, something I’m trying to manage better. What a great resource! Thanks Mark….looking forward to more key points!
Mark, you know what is said… “People do business with those they know, like & TRUST!”
Have an AWESOME Decade!
Tony Profit,
Life-Style Trainer
Mark, trust is a two way street, the people in your group need to have trust in you, but you also have to have trust in them. The article is great, keep them coming.
John Beaver
Future Leader
This is what I was stating in my blog. Thanks for clarifying for me.
Splendid perspective…not really “new”, yet profoundly impactful in light of what we are also trying to assimilate during MKMMA.
Another “home run” , Mark….Thank You!
You are absolutely right ~ READING is what separates the leaders from the masses.
There’s a reason most mansions have libraries!
Looking forward to the rest of your review of this book. I’ve always been a huge Covey fan.
Bliss-ings,
the goddess known as Jacqui
Makes a lot sense Mark. I’ve been focusing more purposefully asking people what I have to do for them to trust and believe in me. It strikes up some interesting conversations.
How very cool and enlightening!
Mark,
This is so amazing. I look forward to reading more and your training.
I am looking forward to learning more about trust. In the past I had never connected trust to the reason a prospect would think of joining you. Now I see that it would be a very good reason. I had always heard “the prospect must trust you” but it always seemed difficult for me to understand how a person that you had such a brief conversation with would be able to trust you.
Thank you so much Mark and Davene.
Great information! Gimme More!
Mark,
This is so true. I contacted a prospect last week and we made an appointment for today (Sunday, 10/03/10) at 1pm. We sat down for one hour and my goal was to get to know him and for him to get to know me (TRUST). I never gave him the “pitch” and our meeting ended with him agreeing to come to a company presentation and he is bringing someone with him.
Great book by Steven M. R. Covey.
Eagerly looking forward to our Interactive Book Review together.
Love learning from OPM’s
Especially when it’s yours.
Hello Mark,
I find that I have the habit when dating a prospect is to state the main purpose is to identify his needs and the emphasis is to get to know him and for him to get to know me. We sometime forget to ask for feedbacks which build up trust.
I am looking forward to engage more in this conversation.
Kim San
soooo true ! What is anything without trust.
Thanks for the reminder
Never throught of 9/11 and the whole Homeland Security organization as a matter of trust . . . but you are certainly right.
To understand the “Stone – Hill alliance,” how to turn ideas in to reality through harmonious exchange of OPM – “Other Peoples Minds” develops principles of leverage, fueled by trust builds relationships and teamwork results in momentum.
Anthony, you are spot on
One of the many great things that happened to me [which I had no idea at the time how powerful it was] was being trained in Chicago in 1971 by W. Clement Stone.
Got a lot out of it, for sure, like the rest of the class ……but…..I was too young to realize just how lucky I was and what an amazing gift.
It is all about the ‘real’ OPM, you are so right
thanks for stopping by
believe
mark j
This is an exciting journey but I need to understand better just what I am doing. Thank you for responding to me.
You are so right we must all be trustworthy. Like Marks says: “Am I worthy of trust”
I dig this you do have to find out OPM what’s in:
Other Peoples Minds