A short video by Joe Polish explaining the "Genius Network" process: a practical networking exercise for entrepreneurs to map eight key people around themselves, identify each person's skills/capabilities, evaluate reciprocal value, and then leverage these relationships to solve problems and seize opportunities. Polish emphasizes creating value for others first and invites high-value, ethical entrepreneurs to apply for Genius Network membership.
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Hello, this is Joe Polish. I'm the founder of Genius Network. I want to tell you how I came up with one of Genius Network's greatest thinking processes. My Genius Network. It's a simple but really powerful way to tackle complex challenges, opportunities, goals, things that we want to achieve and problems we need to overcome. Here's how it works. There are a lot of people out there that are creating amazing results because they have skills and strategies and capabilities, some level of genius that I don't have. And if you can access their genius and bring it into your world, that would be extremely valuable. So take a sheet of paper and draw a circle in the middle. That's you. Outside of the circle. Draw eight circles around it. Now draw a horizontal line through the middle of each circle and think of the eight most important people in your life. It could be someone who works for you, a consultant, an advisor, a mentor, an author. But that person is extremely valuable to you. Write their name at the top of the circle. Go around and write the names of the eight most important people to your business. After that, write the capability or skill they have underneath their names. Now ask yourself, are you spending enough time and attention on these people? What value are you bringing to them? Because I have this belief that I don't expect anyone to do anything for me without creating value for them first. Once you've identified that, then you can write down how this person can help you. But don't expect someone to help you unless you can create value for them first. That's how you build a Genius Network. Any problem, any challenge, any opportunity can be solved with the right Genius Network. Genius Network started because I focused on who are the people I want to meet? And instead of saying what can they do for me, I focused on what's the wisdom they have, the skill they have, and and how can I help them? If you want to meet some of the greatest geniuses in the world and you're a high value entrepreneur who's achievement minded, who creates enormous value, is ethical and wants to do good stuff, then I invite you to apply to become a Genius Network member. We've honed incredible ways to not only teach you some of the best business strategies to help you be a better entrepreneur, but we also bring the right people to you. That's what true collaboration is. So. So again, any problem in the world can be solved with the right Genius Network. Do it now and I hope to see you in a future Genius Network meeting.
