Ivan R. Misner's Blog, page 25

A Personal Update

I greatly appreciate the support, positive energy, and encouragement I have received over the past ten years. As you may know, I was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2012 and I chose transparency as the approach to my diagnosis (I’ll share the full story in my next blog). Over the years I have shared my […]

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The “What’s In It For Me?” Attitude

A few years back, I received an email from someone who read an article I wrote about collaboration and working together. They said, “The type of networking you talk about describes the way things should work, but in the real world most people seem to have an attitude of what’s in it for me.” Then […]

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Understanding Cultural Differences

Today’s global society provides many opportunities for businesspeople. To make the most of those opportunities, it is important to understand cultural differences when doing business around the world. Keep in mind that many business and networking basics are universal across all cultures. When we concentrate on similarities with each other, the differences are much less […]

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Networking – the TRUE Definition

A recent Google search for “what is networking” provided almost six billion results! We should note that those results include computer networking. However, there are still numerous definitions for non-computer networking; the people-to-people type that so many of us want to do and for which most of us have had no formal training. As the […]

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What To Do When Things Go Wrong

My eldest daughter, Ashley, got married earlier this year. The wedding was at a little venue nestled in Southern California near the ocean. I experienced something during the wedding that is a great lesson for entrepreneurs everywhere. The sign of a good team is when they do their job well when everything around them is […]

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The New World of Work

I recently talked with my friend Kian Gohar about how daily life has changed over the past few years and, for many of us, we are now working and meeting virtually as much, or more, as we are in-person. Kian is co-author of the bestselling Harvard Business Review book, “Competing in the New World of […]

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People Love to Buy. Don’t Sell.

People love to buy but they HATE to be sold to. It seems that the general public has a fairly negative attitude about sales, and salespeople. I recommend that, as a business professional, you reframe any beliefs you may have about selling and look at it as building relationships. I learned to do this a […]

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The Importance of Leadership in Business Networking

In all aspects of life, leaders set the tone for how the people in the group or on the team will act. We’ve all seen it happen professionally, personally, and in business networking. I was once at a networking event when a woman approached me and told me that she had heard of BNI® and […]

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The View From Your Windshield Represents Life Itself

Everyone who has driven a car or truck is well aware that the windshield is much larger than the rearview mirror. Why is it larger? Because it is important that we look ahead to have the clearest view possible of where we are going and where we want to go in life. I share more […]

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Get Specific About What You Do

We all know the most frequently asked question that is heard at networking events, business mixers, and seminars. In fact, we have probably asked it ourselves AND have had numerous others ask us: “What do you do?” We’re so accustomed to the question that we hardly give a thought to how we answer it. It’s […]

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