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There is an old adage in football that “speed kills.” If you have a fast team you can do other things that other teams simply can’t.
However, I think greed kills even more.
We’ve all seen where a running back or wide receiver breaks away and a defensive back is left alone with him, coming full steam ahead. Now the defensive back has two choices:
- Tackle the player, wrap him up, make sure you put him down, and get your defense off the field.
- Keep coming full steam ahead and lay a hit on him that will knock him out.
All too often I’ve seen the defensive back go for the “greed” play and try to lay the player out. That’s what would look better and make the highlights….and all too often, the offensive player just bounces off the hit and keeps on going to the end zone.
Greed kills a lot of things. Greed can kill your “hustle” too.
I read a lot of blogs that encourage you to “go for self” and to do what works best for you. That’s a good path to success…to a point. Once you involve other people in your hustle (customers, partners, suppliers) it’s not just your hustle anymore, no matter how much you may think so. You may have control and be responsible for the decision making, but you have to take other people into consideration. If you get too greedy and people think you aren’t looking out for them, they begin to look our for themselves. Things begin to break down when others think they aren’t getting their fair share or you aren’t acting in their best interest.
The key is to reinvent the process so everyone looks towards the end goal. Everyone has to believe that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. That recipe works in life as well.
If you’ve ever seen the 2005 film “A Beautiful Mind”, you’ll know what I’m talking about. There is a scene where Nash (played by Russell Crowe) and his friends are in a bar trying to get at the prettiest girl in the place. They almost get to be like crabs in a barrel, each man downing the next in front of her. As you can guess, none of them get her attention. Nash realized that by being greedy and looking out only for ones self would lead only to short term gain. For lasting success, you have to get buy-in from others, and you only do that by putting others’ interest on par with your own.
(There has to be something to it. It got Nash a share of the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.)
The moral is don’t get greedy. As soon as you thinking only about yourself, you’ll find yourself by yourself.
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