A herd of elephants migrating through a colony of mice crushed hundreds each day. The mouse king approached the elephant king humbly: "We are small but loyal. Spare our homes, and one day we may spare yours." Months later, the elephants were caught in hunters' nets. The mice gnawed them free overnight.
Alliances with those who seem unable to help you are never wasted. Usefulness is not proportional to size or current status. The elephants' survival came from a debt they could not have predicted when they agreed to spare the mice.
Who in your network do you underestimate because of their current circumstances rather than their character or capacity?
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