Just like a car, you too need regular tune-ups and oil changes. You need time out to rejuvenate the best thing you've got going for yourself - you! Time to relax and to treat yourself to a little tender loving care is essential. This is what sharpening the saw is all about.

Just like a car, you too need regular tune-ups and oil changes. You need time out to rejuvenate the best thing you've got going for yourself - you! Time to relax and to treat yourself to a little tender loving care is essential. This is what sharpening the saw is all about.

Just like a car, you too need regular tune-ups and oil changes. You need time out to rejuvenate the best thing you've got going for yourself - you! Time to relax and to treat yourself to a little tender loving care is essential. This is what sharpening the saw is all about. 

Synergy is achieved when two or more people work together to create a better solution than either could alone. It's not your way or my way, a higher way. Learning to synergize is like learning to form V formations with others instead of trying to fly through life solo. You'll be amazed at how much faster and farther you'll go!

Synergy is achieved when two or more people work together to create a better solution than either could alone. It's not your way or my way, a higher way. Learning to synergize is like learning to form V formations with others instead of trying to fly through life solo. You'll be amazed at how much faster and farther you'll go!

It's our tendency to want to swoop out of the sky like Superman and solve everyone's problems before we understand what the problem is. We simply don't listen. As the American Indian proverb goes, "Listen, or thy tongue will make thee deaf."

The key to communication can be summed up in one sentence: Seek first to understand, then to be understood.  In other words, listen first, talk second.

It's our tendency to want to swoop out of the sky like Superman and solve everyone's problems before we understand what the problem is. We simply don't listen. As the American Indian proverb goes, "Listen, or thy tongue will make thee deaf." 

The key to communication can be summed up in one sentence: Seek first to understand, then to be understood.  In other words, listen first, talk second. 

Think Win-Win is an attitude toward life, a mental frame of mind that says I can win, and so can you. It's not me or you, it's both of us. Think Win-Win is the foundation for getting along well with other people. It begins with the belief that we are equal, that no one is inferior or superior to anyone else, and no one really needs to be.

Think Win-Win is an attitude toward life, a mental frame of mind that says I can win, and so can you. It's not me or you, it's both of us. Think Win-Win is the foundation for getting along well with other people. It begins with the belief that we are equal, that no one is inferior or superior to anyone else, and no one really needs to be.

In Part III, the Public Victory section, we'll learn about the relationship bank account and Habits 4, 5, and 6. The key to mastering relationships is first mastering yourself, at least to some degree. You don't have to be perfect, you just need to be making progress. The Public Victory will help you become interdependent, that is, help you learn to work cooperatively with others, so that you can say, "I am a team player, and I have the power to influence and inspire people." This is an even greater accomplishment. The long and short of it is, your ability to get along with others will largely determine how successful you are in your career and your level of personal happiness.