#45) Introducing Win/Win
Hello, and welcome back to "Always Be Better" with Mel Windham. Do you ever get frustrated at work? Not getting paid enough? Other people getting promoted or winning awards, but not you? No bonuses for all your hard work? Nobody listening to you and sometimes even telling you to shut up? Customers treating you poorly? If so, then you might just be interested to learn about Win/Win: a paradigm of success. You can probably guess what it means: in a nutshell, this means: "I Win, and You Win." The best way to fully understand what this means is to first learn what it isn't. This is exactly how Stephen Covey teaches this concept in his 7 Habits . And I'll do the same here: I'll teach you four alternative paradigms and then we'll come back to Win/Win at the end. Win/Lose The first paradigm is Win/Lose. This is the most prevalent paradigm in our society. "I Win, and You Lose." Think of any athletic event. One team is going to win, and the other te