No one is sufficient unto himself!                                                      Inventor  Thoughts

No one individual, No company, No one nation can succeed alone. No one matter how great and powerful you are or your company is or your nation is   

 you Must form alliances with others.

If you do not form alliances with others, you will wither and dry up in your own self-sufficiency. Others, who form alliances, will pass you by and you will be powerless to stop them.

Self-advancement, business, politics - at every level - has become too complex and too involved for self-complacent individualists to "make it" alone. The required combinations of leadership, skills, facilities and finance combine - not just to add power - but to multiply power many times.

Strong leaders always have known this. They formed alliances with other strong leaders and by adding their assets, they multiplied their Power.
The weak leaders were afraid to form alliances because their own weakness would be revealed by close comparison in mutual management.

And so the alliances have grown and multiplied while the "loners" have been unable to compete successfully against the multiplied power of combined management and resources.

So alliances became groups, and groups became mergers, and mergers became conglomerates, and conglomerates became multinationals. And now the multinationals are becoming internationals in ownership as well as multinational locations.

The trend is irreversible.

Since "you can't beat them, join them."

That does not mean that I recommend you rush out and form a multi-billion dollar multinational conglomerate. Of course not!

But it does mean that you should, within your own capability, start looking for and forming mutually beneficial alliances. The more, the better - as long as good judgment is used and mutual benefit is assured.

There are all forms of alliances - between or among individuals, groups, companies, industries, nations. There is a place for you in a mutually beneficial alliance now. Preferably in many alliances!

Since I have mentioned the really big forms of alliances - mergers, conglomerates, multinationals, internationals.

A primary requirement is that you join or form alliances as a means of multiplying your own power.

Your skillfully and increasingly joining or forming alliances will assure your getting richer . . . quicker!

                                                                                              Inventor  Thoughts