Know your weaknesses before you take a loan
One of the most important aspects of creating successful partnerships is to know yourself first. It’s essential to understand your own weaknesses, biases, and prejudices. Knowing these things does not make you weaker. In fact, it makes you much stronger. Knowing where you are vulnerable enables you to seek out those people who can reinforce and strengthen those areas. Keeping your weaknesses hidden from yourself does not ensure that others won’t spot them immediately and exploit them readily.
Knowing yourself also relates to business. An organization must have a realistic assessment of its own culture, its way of viewing the world. Understanding the organization’s strengths and weaknesses is as critical to a business partnership as understanding your personal pluses and minuses is to a personal partnership.
