1) All or nothing. My relationships tend to both start out with a bang and last for decades – or the relationship doesn’t take place at all!
2) Immediate visceral response. I can usually predict, within minutes of first talking to a prospective client, vendor, or workshop attendee, whether a mutually satisfying relationship is going to take place – or just isn’t worth trying.
3)
Business
relationships often turn into personal relationships. Long after the
reason for our initial encounter, and long after we have reason to work with
each other, my strongest business relationships remain as friends – if only
e-mail friends.
More concerned than proud
I’m not proud of my ability to “predict” successful relationships! I’m concerned that my prejudging at first meeting creates a self-fulfilling prophecy, i.e., I don’t think the relationship is going to happen, so I don’t try as hard to make it happen.
Yet, numbers are on my side.
I have had relationships with clients and partners that immediately began on a positive note and ...End chapter sample