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Making the Magic
I love Christmas. I love the presents. I love the food. I love getting together with family. I love the whole thing and I have loved it my whole life. When I was a child, Christmas was pure magic. I believed in Santa Claus and every year the lights on the tree just...
Limited Networker Field Guide: The Gray-Crested Moral Ambigue
This is the another in the "Limited Networker Field Guide" series.Name: Gray-Crested Moral AmbigueEnvironment: Frighteningly common in all walks of life.Behavior: The Moral Ambigue shows up at networking events, businesses, and social events. His camouflaged...
Networking Pride and Prejudice
I love the A&E miniseries of "Pride & Prejudice". There, I've said it and you may now proceed to call me a sissy-man. Just remember I also have a fourth-degree black belt. Joking aside, I do really enjoy watching this story and do so usually at least once...
Knock Knock Networking
On a long drive back from our family vacation at Mackinac Island, stuck in holiday traffic, we made the grievous error of introducing my daughters to the joys of "Knock-Knock" jokes. I'll let that sink in for a few moments. I love my daughters, but they have the...
Networking Muscle Memory
I was toast. I was testing for my first Black Belt. The required form had 84 moves in it. Even if you only wanted to pass, you couldn't make any memorization mistakes. I was in the middle of my examination when I suddenly realized I didn't know what move came next....
Beyond the Networking Honeymoon
Be an outstanding member of the group. They are the networking dabblers. You see them at the local Chamber breakfast. Then you don't. They show up at the lecture series. Then they're gone. They join your referral passing group. Once again, they vanish. They hear...
The Professional Networker
It was time. Or at least my wife said it was time -- time to update my office. Of course, being a guy, I saw nothing wrong with the mish-mash of hand-me-down furniture and cheap particle board shelves I had been using for the last twenty years. I mean, everything...
Are They Clients or Connections?
You know more about them than this, right? Is your network a network or just a list of names? What I mean is, if you suddenly decided to leave your current job or business right now (or someone else decided it for you), would you still be able to call upon your...
Always Confirm Everything
Sometimes it makes sense to follow the rules. It seems to happen every time. Every time I violate one of my networking rules, it seems like I get a "gentle reminder" from the universe about why I have these rules in place. Today my object lesson was on the...