Summary: Relationships are fundamental. The quality of our life is equal to the quality of our relationships. Every relationship has ups and downs, peaks and valleys, and having the skill set to build relationships gives you the ability to create and sustain high-quality relationships. Blaine Bartlett, CEO and president of the consulting firm Avatar Resources, Inc. says the average length of most of his client engagements runs about a decade, which in the consulting business is crazy. He says it’s all about the qualitative side of the work that he does with the folks. Blaine shares that compassionate capitalism is all about the ability to build sustainable relationships and focusing on the area of conflict. In his life in business, he discovered early on that an organization is a collection of people that are in relationship. There are interpersonal relationships that people have with each other and the companies and businesses. There are relationships with vision, with mission, with values. There are relationships that people have with their chairs, with their desks. Everything you encounter in an organization has a relationship component to it. Blaine says the success of an organization, whether it's a family or a business, is going to be predicated on how successful the relationships are actually functioning.<br> <br> <p>Enjoy more episodes of The Conscious PIVOT Podcast at <a href="https://www.adammarkel.com/" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">AdamMarkel.com</a> or download them on your favorite podcast player.</p><br> <p>Looking for more wisdom, resources and support for your own business or personal pivot? Join our incredible PIVOT community on Facebook at <a href="http://pivotfb.com/" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">pivotFB.com</a> and visit <a href="http://startmypivot.com/" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">StartMyPIVOT.com</a> to download your free Kickstart Guide!</p>
