Mark C. Winters explains why visionaries and integrators need mutual respect to work together effectively. Never badmouth your partner, resolve conflicts in private same-page meetings, and treat the relationship like a marriage. Integrators have options if they're disrespected.
Hey everybody, it's Mark C. Winners. Okay, visionaries and integrators, today we're talking about your relationship and the importance of having mutual respect. This is important. It is absolutely essential that neither of you ever say anything negative about the other. Neither of you ever complain to anybody else in the organization about your visionary or integrator counterpart. Never. This is absolutely critical. If you're different types of people, very, very different, so tension between you will be natural. At some point that tension will build and you're going to have the urge to be disrespectful in some way towards your counterpart. But don't you dare my passionate plea to both of you. Fight that urge. Fight it with everything that you've got. Whatever your differences, you work those out behind closed doors in your next same page meeting. That's how you handle those tensions. Another common problem that comes up is that visionaries treat their integrator like their minion. Visionaries. I'm here to remind you that your integrator is not something less than you. Your visionary integrator relationship is a partnership. Think of it almost like a marriage where you want to treat each other with the same level of respect that you would in that level of an important relationship. So, integrators, I'm also here to remind you that if you're feeling disrespected by your visionary, you always have three choices. One, you can address it head on and fix it through interactions in your same page meetings. Two, you can just deal with it. You tolerate it because you feel like the good you get out of the relationship outweighs the friction caused by your feeling disrespected. Or three, you can leave and go find a visionary out there that will treat you with the type of respect that you want and deserve. So visionaries, a little reminder for you, integrators are a scarce commodity in the world. If your integrator chooses option number three, because you continue to disrespect them, just recognize that you might end up alone. You need to decide what's more important and be honest with yourself. Get really clear on this. Is it more important that you feed your ego by treating your integrator in a disrespectful way and behaving like they're somehow less than you? Or is it more important to maintain mutual respect so that you have a powerful visionary integrator combination for your business? It may seem like I'm picking on the visionaries today, but this is a very important point. So to recap, one, the visionary integrator relationship is like a marriage. Maintain mutual respect and treat that relationship as something as important as a marriage. Two Never ever say anything bad about your visionary or integrator counterpart to anyone. Ever. And three the integrator is equal to the visionary. They are not less than wondering how you and your visionary integrator counterpart fit together. Head over to rocketfueluniversity.com and take our crystallizer assessment to find out. While you're there, you can join our free community for visionaries and integrators and and connect with other leaders of entrepreneurial companies just like you. So thanks for watching and until next time, go rock it.
