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@dharmesh @visualizevalue As a software engineer, I loathed networking. Once I understand what it is and the power of it, I can't stop talking to people and help them have a great day.
@dharmesh @visualizevalue Law of reciprocity plays an important role in increasing the number of people who wants you to succeed.
Law of reciprocity requires:
- giving to the group
- abundance mindset
- actively seeking out opportunities to help others
@dharmesh Put together a hit list of 50 people you’d like to stay in touch with this year.
Ever since I read this, I have made a list of nice folks and covering that list 3 per week. Joining active community like @visualizevalue helps
@dharmesh Phases of growing relationship: visibility, credibility, and profitability
- Visibility: create recognition & awareness
- Credibility: walk the talk; talk with your results
- Profitability: If it doesn’t profit both partners, it will not endure
@dharmesh Success is social: all the ingredients of success that we customarily think of as individual — talent, intelligence, education, effort, and luck—are intertwined with networks
@dharmesh If you are an introvert, become a “situational extrovert” - be a loner, reserved ardound strangers, but very outgoing in the right context.
Helped to get my perspective right. I'm an introvert; realised don't have to be one all the time.
@dharmesh Networking is about nurturing mutually beneficial relationships
nurture - nurture as a plant
mutually - both sides benefit
beneficial - not one dimensional; not only about $$$
relation - not a transaction, but a relation
Invest in their success as they invest in yours
Your probability of success is proportional to the number of people that want you to succeed - @dharmesh
How to reach such people and keep that number high? That is where networking comes in.
My knowledge of networking comes primarily from "Networking like a Pro" book
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When asked what bad advice he’s heard floating around the industry, author Tom Peters answered:
They say: “Think big! Have a compelling vision!” I say: Think small. Do something super cool by the end of the day! Excellence is the next five minutes or nothing at all"
Peter Drucker was a proponent of "making a lead decision that removes hundreds of other decisions."
In this episode, I give three examples of how I use lead decisions in my life. Please listen. open.spotify.com/episode/0ccdnK…
RT @velumania: Musk and Mask ruled 2021. 😤
@rishabh_grg Thanks Rishabh. Useful tool.
There are so many tools in this space. Looks like lot of opportunities still unexplored.
What do you think of building on a platform that could change the underlying APIs and also terms?
Do you know what feature I want in @Twitter?
Not edit.
I want to make a note of why I follow someone.
Too often I follow coz of a recommendation. But months later I won’t know.
Few Twitter clients had it though. With irresponsible behaviour to devs, Twitter killed all that
RT @Rameshmandal810: Build good habits in your 20s it will benefits you in future.
Great list of podcast episodes. Thanks @AlexAndBooks_
Is there an app which lets you listen only to one episode of a podcast rather than subscribing to entire podcast? x.com/AlexAndBooks_/…
@SejalSud Go old school. Read annual reports / stakeholder letters of companies.
Amazon & Sonata software are two of the examples
• was the video relevant to the page? No
• was there a recommendation to listen to the page? No
• do these tech available? Yes
I wanted to read an article abt marketing & innovation by Drucker.
First on Google search was an article by Forbes.
When I opened, I saw an irrelevant message and a video on top of the page I WANTED to read.
Greed > technology
Business don't fail because they don't employ latest tech. They die because of greed.
Case in point 👇 Forbes https://t.co/8d08KPgGWA
RT @StephenPiment: @lukeburgis Kettlebells are ideal for a minimal garage gym. And minimal is good.
strongfirst.com/beginners-star…
@valsopi As a coach myself, I would always recommend having a coach 😜
Knowing the type of decision will help you to choose the strategy to make great decisions.
Now make a great decision and follow me :-)
It is after all it is a reversible decision.
While driving on a highway, you might take the inner-city road rather than the coastal road that you wanted to take.
Still you could control the wastage of hours and reverse the decision.
Unless you are Ross (of the Friend's TV series) you want your marriage to last until your death. Reversing a marriage is not possible, though you could get out of it. Still, it will affect your life.
What about significant decisions?
There are two types of significant decisions.
- controllable, hence reversible
- conseqential, thus non-reversible
Let us talk about the consequential decisions first
Though routine decisions should be easy to make, they can become difficult.
How often have you stood frozen in-front of the dressing closet unable to decide the dress to wear?
An important event like a date or an interview can make even the routine decision hard to make.
There are two types of decisions we make:
- routine decisions
- significant decisions
Deciding what dress to wear on any day is a routine decision. Should you take up a job in a different city and move to a whole new environment is a significant decision.
Your future is as strong as the decisions you make today.
Yet, many of us don't learn about making decisions. Here are some of the things I've learned about decision making through many mistakes in life.
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RT @EwanToo: If you're a @LastPass user it's seriously worth considering changing your master key based on this thread, looks like there's…
@123sarang I don’t need a coach. I am a coach 😜😀
RT @123sarang: If you decide to become a coach, realize that most of your prospects will be people who don’t think they need a coach.
RT @RahulGandhi: My condolences on the passing of Archbishop Desmond Tutu. He was a champion of the anti-apartheid movement and a Gandhian.…
If you've determination and storytelling skills, you can go far in life.
My notes from conversation between @nicksalto & @patrick_oshag
x.com/jjude/status/1…
Listen to the episode here: overcast.fm/+Lzu0gmKic
You can read through the transcript here: joincolossus.com/episodes/71926…
I'm sure you'll enjoy it.
Like @sivers, @nicksalto also has fascinating story about delivering happiness to his customers.
Their delivery agents dress up in costumes just to make people laugh, take Polaroid pics of their delivery, and post on their Instagram.
The post goes viral, their brand goes viral
If I was in Canada, I would order their chocolates just for the energy Nick poured in this episode.
In fact, I found few folks doing just that:
x.com/_naveenmishra/…
x.com/damccormick13/…
If people become emotionally connected to us, they'll become emotionally connected to the chocolate
Looking through their instagram feed and linkedin feed, I wholeheartedly agree they are building emotional connection with their employees and customers.
LinkedIn is a platform for boring content (Nick's words 😉)
They tell instagram type storytelling on LinkedIn.
I went to check their LI page. This is how they welcome their new Sales Director - Corrie Higgins: linkedin.com/posts/mid-day-…
How much storytelling is important to them?
Their first hire was a videographer, not a sales person.
Their content team works more like a newsroom team than a marketing team.
Every week, editorial team understands the challenges of the team and tell a powerful story.
An example:
They ran out of powdered coconut sugar. They sought help from their audiences & solved it.
Tell a great story of entrepreneurship without the hustle porn.
What does it mean?
Record everything, and act like a band.
Instead of selling records, sell whatever you produce (in the case of Nick, that product is chocolate)
Two of the biggest CPG companies in the world own their media houses:
• Ferrero Rocher
• Red Bull
They outsource the production of their products; but they own the story-telling - media-houses that does marketing for them
2) Storytelling
I've heard how important storytelling is;
but as I listened to @nicksalto I understood the operational details of corporate storytelling
If you give a data set average inputs, you revert to the average.
This is applicable to so many areas of life.
(if you read average books / articles, you'll come up with only average ideas; if you hang out with average people, you'll attempt only average things) https://t.co/n6vLIol67M
Networking on steroids
• organize the event
• be on the speaker's list
If not these two, your networking effort is wasted
#networking
If you've long-term vision, you can optimize for things your peers are not optimizing for;
this builds competitive advantage for you
1) Hard-work / determination
Nick says this in different metaphors throughout the episode.
Relentlessly
• put one foot in front of the other
• put a few bricks in front of the next
(probably these metaphors are the products of his storytelling skills)
This was another superb episode from @patrick_oshag.
At the start, @nicksalto says only two factors are needed to go far in life. In the episode he expands on those two factors:
• hard work/determination
• storytelling to connect with an audience
My notes
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