Me We Do Be ─ The Four Cornerstones of Success

The world's majestic structures stand as legacies to great empires and civilizations. The medieval castles of Europe, Roman cities, and the Great Wall of China still awe and inspire. While the world's great structures are diverse, they have one thing in common ? they all sit on a solid foundation.

Like the great monuments, all great lives and effective organizations sit on a foundation of four cornerstones, which can simply be summed up as Me We Do Be. The Me cornerstone improves the quality of our thinking. The We cornerstone forms our relationships. The Do cornerstone elevates productivity. The Be cornerstone builds our future.

A child can understand the Me We Do Be principles, but these values are at the core of all great lives and every effective organization. They work because they are practical, complete, and balanced.

The objective of the four cornerstones is not to necessarily become a ?success” in terms of accumulating power, prestige, or more stuff?. It is to achieve balance and become, as Albert Einstein said, a ?person of value.” Indeed, with a solid foundation, we can build anything we want.

Randall Bell, PhD, is a socio-economist and the CEO of Landmark Research Group, LLC. Prior to this, he led a national practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers, the world’s largest consulting firm. The strategic and problem-solving skills of Dr. Bell are well established. He consulted on the World Trade Center, the Flight 93 Crash Sites, the BP Oil Spill, Hurricane Katrina, the Nuclear Testing on the Bikini Atoll and several tragedies including JonBenet Ramsey, O. J. Simpson and the Heaven’s Gate mass suicide mansion. His research has taken him to all 50 states and the seven continents. He is known for his ability to analyze complex situations and present his findings in an interesting, organized and intelligent way.

Dr. Bell’s career has been profiled in The Wall Street Journal, People Magazine, The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, CNN, and every national television network. He is a popular speaker at events around the globe. Dr. Bell earned his PhD in Human and Organizational Systems from Fielding Graduate University and his MBA from UCLA. He is married and has four children. Dr. Bell lives in Laguna Beach, CA, and is an avid volunteer with youth groups, the homeless and at-risk teens.