Spoke with a friend/client the other day (thanks Carrol), and in the middle of our discussion she mentioned a powerful concept on a personal level that has tremendous application for business leaders, especially in small organizations…It’s a paradigm that will free you up from a lot of the stress we as entrepreneurs put on ourselves when we enter or exit relationships, and when others exit ours.
She said, “some people enter our lives for a reason, some people come into our world for a season, and then very few are in it for a lifetime.” What a liberating perspective, if we embrace it and do our best to enter and exit relationships honorably.
Maybe that employee, customer, vendor, mentor, advisor, consultant, boss…could’ve had a bigger impact on you (and you on them) if you both had the same expectation of which (of the 3) your relationship was designed to be. Some are foundational, some are builders, others might simply be scaffolding for a season.
