Archive for August, 2009

Networking and Names

By brendan at 31 August, 2009, 4:42 pm

When I gave up the darts after 15 or so years as a smoker, it was really hard for me. I tried a whole lot of systems but they all failed. Then it occurred to me that the only thing the systems had in common were that they were systems, and hence I had something [...]

Expanding your Network

By brendan at 31 August, 2009, 4:09 pm

Last blog I talked about the best Business Development people I know being great networkers, so I thought I’d talk a bit more this week about expanding your network.
Despite Social Networking being all the rage : LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook. I am not very keen on connecting to people I haven’t met. There is a concept [...]

Networking Numbers

By brendan at 31 August, 2009, 2:17 pm

I was thinking the other day about two guys I knew that were really good at generating new business. Earlier in the day I had dismissed both of them with the comment – “they are only selling into their existing networks”. but at my afternoon coffee, I wondered whether I had thrown the “baby out [...]

The year I stopped watching TV

By brendan at 24 August, 2009, 3:50 pm

Understanding who you are is generally rewarding. Unfortunately its also usually a bit painful as well - or even depressing. I say that because I was a bit depressed when I realised in regards to TV, I was pretty much representative of the rest of Australian society. When I found reality TV fascinating, everyone did. [...]

Geographically Embarrassed Businesses

By brendan at 12 August, 2009, 6:01 pm

Geographically Embarrassed. Its a euphemism for being lost. Whenever you go wandering about in the bush on an Army exercise, individuals or groups are sure to get lost. In my my experience, the first assumption made when you realise you are lost is that the map was wrong. Unfortunately it [...]

Super8 living forever

By brendan at 3 August, 2009, 12:11 pm

One of the things I find terrific about being alive today is that we can actually see what people whom are no longer in their prime or have passed away, were actually like. Not just movie stars, but old documentary footage of leaders such as Churchill and Kennedy. We also get to see old home [...]