Comments on: Bloody Monday: 68,000+ Jobs Lost in One Day

By: Kevin Neuse

Kevin Neuse — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:58:43 +0000

Hi Jason. As I read your post I thought of the “Flywheel Effect” in Jim Collins’ book Good to Great. It takes a lot of work to get the flywheel to turn over the first time, much less spin on its own. It’s not unlike building relationships through networking. Nice job.

By: Martin Buckland

Martin Buckland — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:04:57 +0000

Shocking. I don’t think we have heard the last of the bad news. I’m feeling a sence of desparation with executives in career transition.

By: Kakie

Kakie — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:02:00 +0000

Hi Jason. This is EXACTLY what I needed today. Thanks for the post.

By: Karin H.

Karin H. — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:06:37 +0000

As a former BNI-member (been a member for 6 years) I’ve never regretted the step to become a member. For our particular business – retailer in wooden floors – it didn’t bring that many sales in, but……
the amount and value we received in the form of contacts, advice, help etc is incomparable – in the right meaning of the word, if I say something stupid here, blame my double Dutch English – with the fee we paid yearly.
Now, not being a member since Jan 08 we still ‘profit’ from all the contacts we’ve made over the years.

Can I redirect to Kent Blumberg, who’s holding tele-seminars on ‘Networking for the shy and not-so-shy’:
http://kentblumberg.typepad.com/kent_blumberg/2008/12/class-networking-for-the-shy-and-the-notsoshy.html

Karin H (Keep It Simple Sweetheart, specially in business)

By: Jason Alba

Jason Alba — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:10:21 +0000

Kim, I agree. One of the things I got from Never Eat Alone was to figure out how I could help people… that isn’t the statement I remember in the book, Ferrazzi talks about building “intimate relationships,” as I mentioned above, and as he describes this it really hit home for me

By: Kim Avery, Certified Career Coach

Kim Avery, Certified Career Coach — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:54:33 +0000

One big mindshift that has helped me and many of my clients when networking is this: What can I give in this relationship? It is so powerful to enter a conversation or a room and to take the focus off yourself and put it entirely on them. It takes away the nervousness and frees you to be yourself.

As they say in BNI, “Giver’s Gain.”