“It’s not what you know, but Who you Know.”A popular saying and in my opinion very true. An extension of this which has been great help to me recently is along the lines of:
“It’s not what you know, but Who you share the problem with.”
If no-one knows you have a problem-Big or small, easy or hard, funny or sad. How are they going to be in a position to help you.
If I was to blog my problem would you come to my rescue-someone might I would hope. talking to friends, family could help.
In business you can’t necessarily wander over to a competitor and get sensitive information to help you out of a jam but finding a good business support network of people you trust will do the job. Had you considered an independant director for your business. Contact me and I will send you an interesting article on this.
At networking events the commentary that is popular is that you should be looking to help others, nothing wrong with that but it does need the other side to have a problem. Someone needs to go first.
Finding a solution to a problem lets you move on, create change, shift that rock and get you off from being anchor to the spot.
My problem: A broken garage door spring. Cost to replace about $60. Cost of two conversations $0. Problem solved on second conversation and I also now have a spare.
