Shaan Puri: Professionals should work with employers as partners, not subordinates
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Shaan Puri and Sam Parr discuss counterintuitive career principles on My First Million.
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“You work with, you don't work for, and it's actually a pretty big mentality shift, which is working with somebody is a partnership. It's an agreement. It's a mutually beneficial thing versus I work for you is a, you know you know, there's a dominant person and there's a person who just basically takes orders and does whatever, you know, whatever they have to do, you know, based on the task list. And you never want to be the work for the work for is, you know you know, a servant essentially, whereas working with is a partnership.”
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