Relationships 2.0
It is one of those meetings I will never forget. I’d been on the job for five weeks and all the sudden was getting prepared for a briefing to Senator McCain’s closest political and financial supporters. Five days earlier the Senator’s presidential campaign had, to put it mildly, imploded. The top brass had flown in to assess the situation and determine what was necessary to turn the campaign around.
As we prepared a presentation on how to piece together a financing strategy that would get us through the summer and fall of 2007, I remember thinking, “what could possibly be said to reassure the group?” Right then I got a great piece of advice on politics, and life, in general. My boss looked to me and said, “We don’t have much to say and we have even less to sell, so don’t waste money on glossy paper or color ink. All we have left to rely on are relationships.”
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The Handshake
Archaeological ruins and ancient texts show that handshaking was practiced in ancient Greece as far back as the 5th century BC; a depiction of two soldiers shaking hands can be found on part of a 5th century BC funerary stele on display in thePergamon Museum, Berlin (stele SK1708[1]) and other funerary steles like the one of the 4th century BC which depicts Thraseas and his wife Euandria handshaking (see images on the right).
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The Art of Stationery
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Managing Friends in Heated Times
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TED’s Wooden on Relationships
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Men in Integrity
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Strength of Weak Ties
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Making Ideas & People Happen
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The Future of the Book
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Email Intros
The how, what, when, where, and why.
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