Back in the silent movie days there were two icons of the silver screen that defined comedy. And in their own way, defined networking today.
Buster Keaton was the sad sack of movie comedy. One historian has said “he was a still thing with the world moving around him.” He stood in place while buildings fell around him, trains blew past him and wild horse barely missed him.
Charlie Chaplin, on the other hand, as this same historian described, was “a whirling ball of energy in a still world.” The camera always followed Chaplin, he was the center of the story, the screen, the move house.
Two different styles that resulted in the same reaction: laughter.
So it is with networking (not that we want to illicit laughter from our peers and connections): those that are out front and proactive make connections; those that choose to move a bit slower, but more methodically still make connections (maybe fewer, but more qualified).
Tortoise or hare, Keaton or Chaplin, we all have our style and approach. Jsut work hard at it and have a strategy and goals.
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