Posted by
Icarus on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 2:42:03 PM
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When
I do something, I want to know as much about it as I can. I have set
out on a path of financial freedom in the Network Marketing industry.
Therefore, I want to know the good, bad and ugly about this industry in
which I find myself.
To
educate myself I've picked up Len Clements book, "Inside Network
Marketing: An Expert's View into the Hidden Truths and Exploited Myths
or America's Most Misunderstood Industry". Here is one of the first
gems I've found in this book. It hits at the heart of why I'm in this
industry and why I wonder so many people work so hard at attacking it.
"Why is it that if you
create a company hierarchy where all those at the bottom can only
succeed by climbing over those above them, and those above are doing
everything they can to make sure that those below stay below, this is
considered a legal, legitimate pursuit of the free enterprise system?
If, however, you create the exact same hierarchy, but allow those at
the bottom to create, and be at the top of, their own hierarchies, with
unlimited support, training, and encouragement from all those above
them, this is considered a pyramid scheme?" (13-14) Clements, Leonard W., Inside Network Marketing. Roseville, CA: Prima, 2000
To
paraphrase Robert Kiyosaki, when you're on the corporate ladder there
will always be someone's backside above you, impossible to get around, keeping you
from getting ahead.
Think about that when you go to work next Monday.