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Principle #2 –
Success is built on relationships
Seven Bs of Relationship Building
1. Be real
2. Be interested – interested people attract appreciation
3. Be a good listener
4. Be empathetic
Everyone you meet is fighting a tough battle
5. Be honest
6. Be helpful
7. Be prompt
Interactions
• Transactional - Interactions • Relational - Interactions
focus on results emphasize how people
are treated in the
• Often at the cost of
process of achieving
relationships
results
• Go directly to the outcome
• Doesn’t ignore
• Can make others feel outcomes, but
devalued or used means are important
• Soup Nazi part of the end
Fred Principles
Principle #3 –
You must continually create value for
others and it doesn’t have to cost a penny
“There are two types of people who never achieve very
much in their lifetimes. One is the person who won’t do
what he or she is told to do, and the other is the person
who does only what he or she is told to do.”
Andrew Carnegie
Adding Value
1. Tell the truth
2. Practice personality power
3. Attract through artistry
4. Meet needs in advance
5. Add “good stuff”
6. Subtract “bad stuff”
7. Simplify
8. Improve
9. Surprise others
10. Entertain others
Fred Principles
Principle #4 –
You can reinvent yourself regularly
Reinventing Yourself
• Grow yourself, Grow your value
• Be led by compelling reasons
• Capitalize your life experiences
• Increase your IQ (implementation quotient)
• Improve on the best
• Practice the one-a-day plan
• Compete with yourself
Developing other Freds
• Find
• Reward
• Educate
• Demonstrate
Find
• Let them find you
• Discover dormant Freds
• Hire Freds
• Build your Fred team
• We want a team of Freds led by a Fred
Reward
• We don’t get the behavior we hope for, beg for, or
demand. We get the behavior we reward!
Educate – Increase your Freducation
• Examples are everywhere
• Good and bad
• Dissect and debrief
• Identify the good idea
• Adapt the idea to the situation
• Look for ways to improve it
• Apply it
• Teach miracle working
• Pull, don’t push
Demonstrate
• Inspire, don’t intimidate
• Involve
• Initiate
• Improvise
Go Spread Fred
• Recognize the Freds in your life
• Acknowledge Freds for their contribution
• Pay Freds back
Thank you!