Relationships

The Ageless Networker or How Not to Turn Into an Old Fuddy Duddy

It’s no secret I am a senior networker, agewise.  However, I’ve noticed that a number of my age peers refuse to change and adapt with the times.  Not that I am all that with it, technologically or timewise, but I do believe that refusing to adapt to change is not tied specifically to aging.  It

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Retention Criteria for a Business Relationship

How do you choose to continue a relationship with a client?  Some business relationships seem to go on like a flowing stream with little or now need for maintenance.  Others need to be tended to almost daily. But what criteria do you use to keep or part with a client? Recently I spoke with a

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TMI? Are We In Touch Too Much?

There’s a children’s book, the Berenstain Bears’ “Too Much Birthday” where the birthday child just hass too much to take in on their special day. Are we all getting that way with social media?  Now, I know this is an almost-overdone topic, but it appears that we are getting worse.  Besides the dinners where everyone

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Be Sure Your Mouth Can Back Up Your Scissors and Comb

Today was haircut day with my personal favorite, positive thinker and doer, Phyllis.  She reminded me of something we all need to be aware of: do you have the skills to back up your claims? Only she said, “I can go anywhere with my scissors and comb and succeed as long as I can back

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Seeing the Network for the Trees

On  a recent afternoon of listening to sports talk in the car, I heard another recounting of the pedigree of a coach based upon their “coaching tree.”  This time it was the Dallas Cowboys‘ hiring of Monte Kiffen and the where-he-came-from-and-who-he-knew history that justified his hiring. It got me to thinking that we can create

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