A DEFINITE CHIEF AIM 137COMMENTARY
To recap, the Master Mind is a mental state that is developed through the harmo-
nious cooperation of two or more people who ally themselves for the purpose of
accomplishing any given task. The Master Mind harnesses the dedicated effort of
a group of people, pools their resources, both tangible and intangible, and creates
a new whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
A Master Mind operates (or should operate) among the members of the
board of directors for huge international corporations. It operates among a team of
engineers designing a new car. It operates in the production of a movie, the conduct
of a political campaign, or the launch of a new advertising strategy. A Master Mind
occurs when a church begins a fundraising program for a new building, when a
group of neighbors organizes to increase the safety of their community, and when
a couple commits to a lifetime of marriage.
A Master Mind is not simply teamwork. People can work together on a team
simply because they like the leader, or because they are paid to. But in a Master
Mind alliance each member must be passionately committed to the same goals.Let me lay before you a brief outline of what this lesson is and what it
is intended to do for you.
Having prepared myself for the practice of law, I will offer this
introduction as a statement of my case. And the evidence with which to
back up my case will be presented in the seventeen lessons of which
the course is comprised.
The facts out of which this course has been prepared have been
gathered through more than twenty-five years of business and profes-
sional experience, and my only explanation of the rather free use of the
personal pronoun throughout the course is that I am writing from first-
band experience.
Before this course on the Law of Success was published, the manu-
scripts were submitted to two prominent universities with the request
they be read by competent professors-with the object of eliminating