About 10 years ago, burning bridges was fairly easy to do.
There was a lot of “X person is trying to screw me over. I’m going to screw him over.”
There was definitely a lot of “this person sucks at doing what they are supposed to do, I’m leaving them to go do it myself.”
The increasing number of burnt bridges is one reason why there were so many new businesses started 10 years ago.
As time waned, businesses quickly realized that they shot themselves in the foot when they burned the bridge to start their own business because they didn’t just burn a bridge between themselves and one other person, they burned the bridges of all those that one person had bridges with.
Talk about a quick realization of stupidity.
Add the internet in and it’s no wonder everyone became determined to connect and build more bridges.
Here’s the lesson: it’s a smaller world than it has ever been.
That’s what the connection economy is about. It’s about making something so vast seem so small and personal and intimately shared.
In the connection economy, there’s no winning when you burn a bridge.
In the connection economy, we compromise when something doesn’t go the way we want, when we begin feeling uncomfortable in a relationship, when we get defensive.
We don’t burn bridges.
Stay Positive & Connect, Collaborate, Compromise, And Most Importantly, Overcome
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