Gifts and the Scorecard

We’re moving into the gift-giving season for many of us. Whether you celebrate Christmas or not and whether it’s fair or not, this is the time of year that a lot of folks send out their corporate gifts. Here’s the thing, though: If you are sending...

Thinking About Yourself

This post is not about focusing on your needs to the exclusion of and/or cost to others. No matter how you cut it, that is just bad networking. In this case, I am referring to the idea of using yourself as a yardstick to measure your networking behavior. Let me...

Inevitable Delays and Stale Business Cards

This morning we launched the newest version of BiblioBouts in the classroom. BiblioBouts is a web-based game which attempts to teach students good research skills. It’s a project I’ve been on for a couple of years now as a part of my old business. Now, I...

When?

Practice, practice, practice The techniques we talk about here only work if you take responsibility and use them — and use them frequently. Most of them are pretty simple, but not always easy to force ourselves to do. So, when is the next time you can practice...
Pay Attention!

Pay Attention!

Luke: Pay attention to me! As I wrote, a few weeks ago we had to say goodbye to our cat Ray. It was sad for us, but it’s been even harder on his brother Luke. They weren’t completely inseparable, but they were very close and Luke is feeling the absence....