This article is written by Darren Jensen, CEO LifeVantage and has many golden nuggets for any network marketing professional 🙂
The famous philosopher, Bertrand Russell once said, “It’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”
I started asking questions during my first job in direct sales (in fact, if you asked my mentor, he’d probably say I asked too many questions). I was working for a large company that was growing fast.
We began to hire people from outside of our industry – well-known and highly respected names from the world of retail joined our ranks. Naturally, many didn’t have the same passion that I did for direct sales, and it was frustrating at times. So one day I sat down with my mentor who happened to be the COO at the time. I asked him why we were hiring so many outsiders. His response, changed my career.
“Darren, companies value other companies’ experience.”
In that moment I realized that in order to make my company great, I had to understand what made other companies great. There had to be principles behind their success. And I started a life-long mission to understand them.