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Networking: The Way to Win Favors, Funds, and Friends
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15010 |
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LIFE
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9 / 1988 |
1,544 Words |
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Patricia Harrison
Patricia Harrison is president and founder of the national
Women's Economic Alliance Foundation and a partner of the E.
Bruce Harrison Co. |
At a recent reception attended by more than four-hundred executives in private industry and government, a friend enthusiastically waved me over to have a drink.
"This is the most fabulous conference," she said, plopping a lime into a glass of club soda.
"You think so?" I replied, surprised at the assessment. "The speakers are terrible and the format is adequate."
"Oh, I agree," she said. "But the networking is fabulous!"
"Networking" may be the most overused but least understood word of the eighties. In theory everyone is doing it, yet no one is very clear on just what is supposed to happen.
What does networking mean to you?
Check one:
(a)musical chairs with business cards; (b)what the trapeze artist asks right before he swings; (c)a good way to kill an enjoyable dinner, party, or meeting.
Those of you who checked (c) probably have vivid memories of those early days of networking excess when we put on our dress-for-success suits, registered for the nearest "How to Succeed in Twenty Minutes" seminar and, armed with a year's supply of business cards, proceeded to hand them to anyone upright and breathing. We collected as many cards as we handed out, yet one week later
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