Build Relationships, Build Community – Adding Value
So far in this series we have outlined the profound benefits of relationship-building as well as specifically outlined how it can be done by making a great first impression as well as by doing exceptional research about a contact, associate,…
Strength in Community
Sometime back in Classical Greece someone carved “know thyself” on my least favourite god, Apollo’s, temple at Delphi. No one really knows who wrote it, but a quick twitblog of the interscape will tell you that Socrates (or maybe Plato) took credit for the idea. And Alexander Pope wrote a poem about it a few years later. The point is, before you look outward and certainly before you strive out on a life path – career, family, adventures in foreign lands, kidlets, part-altering-operations – you need to look inside and, well, get a sense of yourself.
community and the classroom
This all (more or less) happened at Bishop’s University. A few days ago I let my two favourite undergraduate professors know about this website Their responses were different and hilarious. One said there was “too much piratology” and struggled to comprehend…