Kyle Ford uses a gardening metaphor to explain partnerships: people are organic systems that need the right conditions—sunlight, water, supportive relationships—to thrive and create mutual benefit.
Human beings are our organic systems. You know, we're all much more like growing a garden than running a car. You gotta make sure you got the right sunlight and the right watering and the right conditions by which people feel good and they feel like they can do their best work and that they are getting something really great out of your relationship with them and vice versa.
