{"id":1221,"date":"2012-03-26T08:30:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T12:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobpaff.com\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2014-06-11T14:51:22","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T18:51:22","slug":"help-others-succeed-and-watch-your-business-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/?p=1221","title":{"rendered":"“Help Others Succeed” And Watch Your Business Increase!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PayitForward\"<\/a>I think I may have touched a nerve or two here with my altruistic thinking<\/a> of late! Along\u00a0the lines of doing something nice for others and calling a prospect or client each day to\u00a0offer help, I want to explain how helping and \u201cpromoting\u201d others is a homerun for you!\u00a0One saying I like to use with those who work with me is, \u201cif I shine, you become a star.\u201d<\/p>\n

Quite simply, we’re taking a lesson from the Ronald Reagan Handbook of surrounding\u00a0yourself with great people. While Reagan was known as The Great Communicator, no\u00a0doubt in part to his experience as an actor, he was never known for his off-the-chart\u00a0intellect, like a Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter or Barack Obama. One of the keys to great\u00a0leadership \u2013 and Reagan was truly one of the best leaders of our time \u2013 is to have the\u00a0self-confidence to surround yourself with people smarter than you in your areas of\u00a0weakness. Why, you might ask, does this take courage? We live in a world where\u00a0everyone is competing. The fear is, if I promote you as good at something, does that\u00a0make me bad at the same task? If I promote you, who’s going to promote me?<\/p>\n

Strong leaders recognize that they cannot possibly be all things to all people, nor would\u00a0they ever try. They don’t have to be. What they have to be are strong leaders, and few\u00a0can assume that task successfully! Remember what Jack Welch said in his Big\u00a0Six<\/a>: \u201cDon’t manage, lead.\u201d By surrounding yourself with the best and promoting others,\u00a0you exude confidence, sending a clear message of who is in charge and that only the\u00a0best and brightest need apply. My son Taylor tells his friends that if they want to work\u00a0with me, \u201cmy dad does not do stupid or lazy.\u201d Few can carry the mantle of strong\u00a0leadership. In a recent interview, Ron Paul said he doesn\u2019t see himself in the Oval\u00a0Office, nor does he expect to win the nomination. His campaign is, in part, all about\u00a0establishing a platform, effecting change.<\/p>\n

So, how do you promote others? You’ve all heard of the \u201csnowball effect.\u201d The idea is\u00a0that once something takes hold, the words, ideas, and plan gain momentum and soon\u00a0increase in power and commitment. It’s one thing to call and ask someone how you can\u00a0help them, but it\u2019s entirely another to take the matter into your own hands by promoting\u00a0or celebrating someone. Know anyone who is so good at what they do that you want to\u00a0shout it to the world? What\u2019s holding you back? If you know someone who writes,\u00a0speaks, teaches or coaches about something that would be of tremendous value to a\u00a0friend, client or prospect, promote that person to others! When I’m paid a compliment\u00a0for adding value to someone’s life, I like to say, \u201cdon’t keep me a secret.\u201d Does this\u00a0make us self-absorbed or altruistic? I think the latter, but for fear of rejection or fear of\u00a0perception, we don’t do this often enough.<\/p>\n

I want you to do this. Do you have a website, Facebook page, social club, client list,\u00a0newsletter, through which you can promote someone else? When I produced a
\nnewsletter years back, we always had a \u201cClient\u2019s Corner,\u201d where we would salute one of\u00a0our clients or prospects. How flattered would your clients be if you asked to celebrate\u00a0them, just because they are good at what they do! Wow, what a simple concept, just\u00a0simply not done. So go ahead, start now. Start paying it forward. Blast the word through\u00a0all your viral (and not-so-viral) outlets that you are here to share and celebrate a\u00a0success story.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t Keep Me A Secret!<\/p>\n

Bob Paff<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, how do you promote others? You’ve all heard of the \u201csnowball effect.\u201d The idea is that once something takes hold, the words, ideas, and plan gain momentum and soon increase in power and commitment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2078,"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions\/2078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}