Musings at Altitude

Work the Network

In the last three days, I’ve had emails from a friend in Ireland introducing me to a new fuel storage monitoring program, a voice mail from a business partner in Ireland asking me to call for us to talk, and emails from several “lower 48” business partners asking for when we can talk and visit once again.  Each of these have been put on hold as our team has hunkered down together and focused on the strategic goals of our owners and the path towards greater maturity for ourselves.

But today, I get to smile and break away from that internal focus and work on my network and see how this product and these calls can advance our business or help other peer companies or partners in their business.  I find great energy in networking, but I’ve come to realize that I spend days at a time completely immersed in something and thus letting those that want to network with me just hang.  That’s not good; that’s not right.

So today I’m going to network.  I need to respond to network contacts before the close of business in any given day.  If nothing else, I need to say, “I’ll get back with you tomorrow”.  Any response is better than no response at all.

January 7th – Assessment

I looked in the mirror and smiled last night.  Though the conversation wasn’t always uplifting, the candidness and the complete honesty was refreshing.