Back-to-Back Meetings Poison Your Productivity. Here’s the Antidote.
“Meetings should be like salt: A spice sprinkled carefully to enhance a dish, not poured recklessly over every forkful. Too much salt destroys a dish. Too many meetings destroy morale and motivation.” – Jason Fried (@jasonfried), Basecamp founder and CEO 1860 minutes. According to Atlassian, the average person spends 31 hours, or 1860 minutes, in […]
If You Forget Everything Else About Your Contacts, Remember This One Thing
150. As Maria Konnikova (@mkonnikova) points out in The Limits of Friendship, the average person can maintain about 150 relationships at a time. This limitation, called the Dunbar Number, is illustrated time and time again in our day-to-day lives: We meet new people, shake hands, have great conversations, agree to stay in touch, collect business […]
How to Generate Valuable, Relevant Opportunities with a Relationship Objective
What do you want out of your relationships? Everyone has what I like to call a relationship objective; the problem is, most of us aren’t consciously aware of what ours is. For some, it’s incredibly direct and specific: “I want to leverage my network to make more money.” For others, it’s a little less direct: […]
Silicon Valley Success: 3 Traits of the Most Effective Founders, CEOs, and Entrepreneurs
No one in Silicon Valley “lucks” into lasting success. I’d know: I’ve interviewed, worked with, and coached a number of successful founders, CEOs, and Entrepreneurs; and I’ve seen first-hand what it takes to be a Silicon Valley Operator. Operators are those who consistently push the limits of peak efficiency, drive innovation, and generate valuable opportunities […]
Forget newsletters: 4 tips to stay top-of-mind using personalized update emails
Maybe that title is a little over-zealous: Don’t forget newsletters; they’re a powerful conversion tool. But don’t limit yourself to them. One of the most underutilized email strategies in network relationship management are personalized update emails. These are exactly what they sound like: Personal updates sent to your professional network; a quick and easy way […]