Change Your World - Book Tour

The following is an excerpt from the brand new book, Change Your World: How Anyone, Anywhere Can Make a Difference by John C. Maxwell and Rob Hoskins

We currently live in a time of hostility, division, and partisanship. People would rather draw lines and throw stones than engage in conversation and try to find solutions together. In this climate, cooperation may seem like the best we can hope for between people. 

But that’s selling ourselves short. We can do better. 

Cooperation is unity for the sake of unity. Cooperation says, “Let’s just get along or else nothing will get done.” 

Collaboration is unity for the sake of shared vision. Collaboration says, “Let’s work together because this has to be done.”

We believe the implication of cooperation is that people are not working against one another. 

But when there is true collaboration, they are working for one another. They are intentionally going in the same direction, helping one another to achieve something they all feel is worthwhile.

When we all work together in collaboration, everyone benefits. I love the image of how coastal redwood trees grow as an example of collaboration. Unlike many other trees that put down relatively deep roots, including a tap root, coastal redwoods don’t. Even though the trees can grow to be nearly four hundred feet tall, their roots are shallow, going down only six to twelve feet. But they spread out broadly—often to more than one hundred feet. And they grow in groves, with their roots interweaving together making the trees stand strong together, even in violent storms. Though they are the tallest trees in the world, redwoods rarely fall. No wonder they’ve been known to live for longer than two thousand years!

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