This blog is about business. It's about personal character and motivation to source the best mix of reality and hope, as well. I cannot write in words how the past few days really delivered another "that's why that happened", "those stars aligned", "God just pulled off another one"...take your pick.
In an earlier post, I detailed a meeting I attended in the late 1990's with apathy, if not dread. That turned out to be a really special business deal and relationship....not to mention lucrative. The takeaway? Again, respect the relationships and don't predetermine outcomes. That is just foolish.
Now, I have a better one. I worked with one of the most engaging, entertaining, and Zig Ziglar-esque professionals for less than a year or so back in 1995. He was a force of nature. Well, we both found other entrepreneurial opportunities and went our separate ways. Except for one time @ the airport, living in the same town, we never crossed paths again...until this past week.
A mutual friend invited both of us to a meeting, neither of us knowing that the other was coming. This was supposed to be a simple business discussion over coffee and it became quite the reunion. Who knows where it goes from here, but I was reminded again that all of us need to respect every conversation, meeting, and the potential of what may be just a few degrees away from where we think we are headed. As always, keep your eyes and ears open, look for what you can do for the other person as he or she hopefully returns the intent, and then explore the mutual potential past any given conversation, meeting, or gathering of any kind. You just never know where those nano-networking moments will take you, as was reaffirmed for me again today.
