After exiting a coffee shop the other day, Mike, a friend of mine who is desperately looking for a new job, ran into Seth Godin on an empty sidewalk. Mike: Seth Godin? Seth: Yes Mike: Big fan. Read your books. Seth: Thank you. What’s your name? Mike: Mike Seth: What are you working on these days, Mike? Mike: … Seth: … Mike: I, ...
When we’re looking for a change in our lives, we’re told to “Go to networking events.” It’s not the worst advice, but the fortune-cookie depth of the aid skirts the fact that the help we need is very often already in our network. So why do we love new connections more than our best connections? Glad ...
Is there anything more deflating than being smothered with an ill-timed “We should grab coffee sometime,” at a networking event? It’s not that the statement itself is wrenching, it’s the assumptions behind it that make it so. “We should grab a coffee sometime,” is typically the go-to line for a “taker” at a networking event. Taker (n): Someone ...
If our private thoughts could speak, our businesses would crumble. But if we can’t laugh about that, shame on us. If you’re like me (and a lot of my colleagues), you've been in that deep, dark place as a newbie entrepreneur/business owner/movement starter where you’re so emotionally raw from putting yourself out there time and again, that a ...
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