𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗻… | Adrian Röbke | 29 comments

The only networking principle that means anything is: Control your introduction.

Networking brings you into contact with more people and keeps you in contact with them, thereby increasing the chances that when they need advice, want to find an investment partner, or are thinking of a candidate for some position, they will remember you.

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For many of us, a challenge of networking lies in trying to guess the motives or intentions of a new contact, especially since we’ve seen that takers can be quite adept at posing as givers when there’s a potential return. Is the next person you meet interested in a genuine connection or merely seeking personal gains—and is there a good way to tell

Sam. “Changing my focus from seeing what I could git to what I could give was when my career started to take off. Started to. But in a business like mine—actually, in any business—you also need to know how to develop a network.” He looked directly at Joe. “Do you know what I mean by ‘network’?”