Is ‘networking’ just social climbing by another name? Is social climbing always a bad thing?
Networking as social climbing, discuss-
BBC News – A Point of View: Is social climbing always a bad thing?.
Networking as social climbing, discuss-
BBC News – A Point of View: Is social climbing always a bad thing?.
While every business development professional dreams of out of the blue phone calls from potential customers, they seldom happen.It’s really important to remind ourselves that most new business opportunities come from following up on referrals and tips from your own network of friends, clients and contacts. We all know the old saw about it being…
We’ve just been told it’s the end of the ‘nice’ decade and the business of business is about to get tougher, much tougher. Selling has been easy with such strong growth but we’re moving into a buyers market , a strong headwind for all of us with responsibilities–are you ready to “pitch into the wind”?…
It’s 3am New Orleans time. I’m wide awake in my room at the name hotel on Bourbon St, where I’ve chosen to be for the next 4 days at the Presentation Summit 2015. I spent 18 hours travelling here. I missed the most important game of rubgy there has been for years (I discovered on…
I got it for Christmas. From my wife. She loves me. I was indifferent, to him. For an Englishman, Lord Sugar of Clapton, as he is now, is unmissable, ubiquitous and often unintelligible. He’s the ‘Donald Trump’ of our little island and he’s become the (grumpy and sometimes curmudgeonly) face of the ‘self-made-man’ in the…
When I’m doing my thing with clients, I’m often asked what the single most important element to networking is. I often answer Be likeable. A person who is warm, generous, open and at ease is more impressive than the most skilled professional with the interpersonal appeal of a criminal psychopath. Think Ronald Reagan vs. George…
I know it might sound glib but it just came to me sitting here. Focus is about all of those things that I mentioned yesterday, and here’s why: If you concentrate on doing things that you really enjoy then the chances are that you’ll also be really good at them. I know this flies in…