Greetings to you this Monday Morning!
"If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive. If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative" ~ Preston Bradley.
The world fundamentally is constituted on the basis of harmony. Everything works in cooperation with something else.
We create our own suffering by refusing to cooperate with others. When we work together, we not only succeed, but we do so with a clear conscience.
Cooperation, working together, or teamwork is the source of great power and creativity. In the past, businesses considered one another as rivals. Today, they form strategic alliances and benefit from the power that cooperation brings. In the arts, cooperation is the source of awe-inspiring beauty. Great works of music, could come to life only because of the cooperation of artisans who made the musical instruments, music schools, musicians, makers of MP3/iTunes and audiences.
Have you ever wondered why birds fly in a "V" formation? Well, as each bird flaps its wings, it creates an uplift for the bird that follows, (just like an airplane's propeller) allows the birds to fly 70% more efficiently than a lone goose. But isn't it more tiring for the lead bird(s)? Yes, it is, so they regularly change their positions during their flight. So, geese, too, do not exist for themselves, but for one another.
Not only in the animal world, but in the very building blocks of nature, we find teamwork, for protons, neutrons, and electrons join to form atoms. Atoms work together to create molecules. Molecules, in turn, make compounds, and so on up the chain. The web of existence seems to be based on cooperation. Our atoms, molecules, and genes are pulsating with cooperation; aware of it or not, it's part of our nature.
So let's reflect on the power of cooperation, to make the world a better place to live in.
Make it a great charged-up week ahead and let us start focusing on collaborative way of working!