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3.REMEMBER THAT THEY WORK WITH YOU, NOT FOR YOU

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You must ideaize, not through the force and strength of your position, but through the force and strength of your character, your ideas, your vision, your drive, your enthusiasm.

The people you work with should want to help you, not have to help you.

There is a practical reason for this: Work generated by command never has the freshness or spontaneity of work generated by desire.

True, forced labor is a good way of breaking rocks, but it seldom breaks new ground. And yours is a business of breaking new ground, an endeavor that requires what only desire can generate — freshness and spontaneity. ...

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