Sunday, July 12, 2009

It is not that important (Or is it)

I was speaking with a business associate (IE I Work with them) and they were speaking on how they do so much unimportant stuff every day. I ask what that was.

1. Talking to people about their problems (mostly personal)
2. Talking with people in the industry
3. Working out technicalities in jobs
4. Reviews.

To be honest, I question that all of these except number 3 may ultimately be the important things. Will anyone really care in a year that the technical stuff got resolved? No.

However they will remember you helping with their problems. Building long term relationships and people do remember their reviews (I do) Sure, we have to balance work and other. Yet I would entertain that if you do the other things in moderation and truly care, the rest will get done and done better. The key is when you need things to get done, the team knows when that is.

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