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Lessons for entrepreneurs from a corporate retirement party
I went to a retirement dinner last night. It was for someone I worked with over 10 years ago, and in addition to connecting again with old friends, it was really interesting to hear their comments about the corporate world.
Two main ideas kept coming up over and over again:
The importance of relationships
Their appreciation for people [...]
Embrace your quirkiness!
Do we ever forget our early years and that pressure to fit in?
The penalties for being different were many: our life would be made darn uncomfortable if we stood out from our peers.
Even if you weren’t one of the “different” kids, you were a witness to what happened to them, and wouldn’t have traded places [...]
How to enjoy our business relationships
To be successful in business, we want people to be drawn to us.
To feel good being in business, we want to have pleasant interactions with people. In my last post, I talked about how it feels so good to be with a good friend because we feel understood, acknowledged, accepted and appreciated.
How can we help [...]
I have a love-hate relationship with enthusiasm especially when it comes to selling
Love:
Remember the last time you went to a store and deal with a sales person who had the “whatever!” method of dealing with the customer? It’s irritating; we want to tell the person to quit if they hate that job so much.
Just the other day I had to go into one of those big [...]