success - Turbo Coach, achieve breakthroughs - Brian Tracy
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<strong>Turbo</strong><strong>Coach</strong><br />
umns or pillars, and it has become an apt metaphor for a<br />
<strong>success</strong>ful business.<br />
The Metaphor<br />
The career or business you are building is as important to<br />
you as was the Parthenon to the Greeks. It took many years<br />
of painstaking planning and excruciatingly hard work to<br />
erect this magnificent temple. The same is true of your own<br />
efforts to build a <strong>success</strong>ful and lasting career or business.<br />
A level of commitment that was quite extraordinary was<br />
essential to the ultimate <strong>success</strong> of the Athenians’ undertaking.<br />
No less is required of you.<br />
Like the Parthenon, your career or business is also supported<br />
by pillars, each of which is central to its integrity and<br />
its survival.<br />
The Parthenon was ‘‘built to last.’’ So, too, your career<br />
or business must be based on rock-solid principles.<br />
The Parthenon Principle<br />
Imagine the result of a small increase in the strength of each<br />
of the supporting pillars of the Parthenon. As each is<br />
strengthened, it will affect the robustness—the durability—of<br />
the structure. Clearly, a small change in each pillar will give<br />
rise to a large change in the overall structure. The same is<br />
true of your career or business. This gives rise to what we<br />
call the Parthenon Principle:<br />
Small improvements in multiple areas<br />
can result in large improvements in results.
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