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Reinventing the Way We Do Business
Gimmicks are a loser’s game. If you’re not treating your business as a serious, long-term proposition, then you’ve got bigger problems than trying to figure out which flavor of management strategy to use. Business is 99% about people; people are 99% about human interactions and relationships – and the strongest relationships, in life and in business, are built on a strong foundation of trust. You can’t build trust by tricking and tweaking, and you can’t build a business, either.
…. Ed Whitacre, Former Chairman and CEO, General Motors
Think about that :
- Business is 99% about people
- People are 99% about human interactions and relationships
- Relationships are built on a strong foundation of trust
- Trust cant be built by tricking and tweaking
… and then think about the constant gaming and claiming and point collecting and racing to the bottom that goes on in Social Networking - and you begin to understand the ‘other side’ of the coin.
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My thanks to a good friend for flagging this one to me. Not credited because she (unusually in these modern times) definitely flies under the radar - but she knows who she is.