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Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone.
Poverty, I realized, wasn’t only a lack of financial resources; it was isolation from the kind of people who could help you make more of yourself.
Success in any field, but especially in business, is about working with people, not against them. No tabulation of dollars and cents can account for one immutable fact: Business is a human enterprise, driven and determined by people.
changing behavior in the workplaces of the world’s most prestigious organizations.
Competitive edge in the industrial era was won by constantly reengineering process and systems. Today it’s won by improving relationships.
Information, unlike material resources, is fluid: it can appear (be discovered or communicated) or disappear (become outdated) at any moment. Having the best information at
Next, ask the people who know you best what they think your greatest strengths and weaknesses are.
The tool I use is something I call the Relationship Action Plan. The most simple version of the plan is separated into three distinct parts: The first part is devoted to the development
of the goals that will help you fulfill your mission.
The second part is devoted to connecting those goals to the people, places, and things that will help you get the job done. And the third part helps you determine the best way to reach out to the people who will help you to accomplish your goals. This means choosing a medium to co...
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the courage to reach out by yourself.
Clay Shirky summed it up in 2008, and he’s still right: “The problem isn’t information overload, it’s filter failure.”
Sometimes I’ll take potential employees for a workout and conduct the interview over a run. As a makeshift staff meeting, I’ll occasionally ask a few employees to share a car ride with me to the airport. I figure out ways to as much as triple my active working day through such multitasking. And in the process, I’m connecting people from different parts of my “community.”
Contrary to popular business wisdom, I don’t believe there has to be a rigid line between our private and public lives.
Don’t let that put you off. Think of it this way: The last thing you want to be in a competitive marketplace is replaceable. You want to be uniquely you, by definition irreplaceable, and the only way to do that is to risk putting yourself out there.
As Chris Brogan once said to me, try writing your LinkedIn profile for the job you want to have, not the job you have. But
These days the challenge of companies isn’t to scale efficiency, but to scale learning, our ability to master and remaster new rules of business as they explode around us. Today’s employees need to become whizzes when it comes to identifying, developing, and integrating the new and the better.
Reading my friend keith ferrazzi's bok "Never Eat Alone". I tgougt this quote was interesting. I have always thought the same except you scale learning inorder to scale efficiency. What do you think?
It’s not what you know; it’s how quickly you’re able to know the new and right things.
Why does every screenwriter in Los Angeles carry around a copy of his latest work?
Consider spending time in other cities or even countries as an investment in your career. Attend conferences,
which are terrific for serendipity not only because they bring together diverse groups of people around a similar interest, but also because all those people are there for the same reason—to meet new people and learn new things. They are in a mind-set that invites serendipity.
Witness all those jobs moving offshore to Bangladesh and Bangalore. The one thing no one has figured out how to outsource is the creation of ideas. You can’t replace people who day in and day out offer the kind of content or unique ways of thinking that promise their company an edge. Content creators have always been in high demand.
There’s no better way to learn something, and become an expert at it, than to have to teach it.
Some of the best CEOs I know refuse to turn away business even when it might call for skills or experience that their company doesn’t have. These CEOs see such a scenario as an opportunity. “We can do that,” they’ll say. In the process, both the CEOs and their employees learn skills they need. They jump at trying something new, and they get the job done. In
6. Expose yourself to unusual experiences. When management guru Peter Drucker was asked for one thing that would make a person better in business, he responded, “Learn to play the violin.” Different experiences give rise to different tools. Find out what your
kids are interested in and why.
And yet, truth to tell, few talents are more important to managerial success than knowing how to tell a good story.”
For chris
Ask your most trusted friends what words they would use to describe you,
Oscar Wilde once suggested that if people did what they loved, it would feel as if they never worked a day in their life. If your life is filled with people you care about and who care for you, why concern yourself with “balancing” anything at all?
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