I love to make smart connections across my network. There are so many people who should meet, but don’t even know about each other. Often, they live in different states, across the country, or even across the world. So, there’s a delight when they come together.
In social capital theory, you can be a broker (someone [...]

There’s an old saying that good news travels fast but bad news travels faster. In this age, the speed of communications really doesn’t matter–it’s the quality of communications.
When someone reaches out to you with truly great news or horrible news, take a moment to plan your reply. How can you make your response quick and [...]

If you’ve ever been to a rubber-chicken networking event, you’ve probably seen people who try to connect too quickly. They know they only have a short amount of time to connect with you, so they try to get too close “too quickly.”
They act like your best friend, in the hopes that they’ll create enough of [...]

What about people who drift in and out of our lives? Well, we can represent that through elliptical (rather than circular orbits).  At certain times we’re far apart from each other, and at other times, we’re close.

However, in these relationships, we’re still impacted by each other’s pull. We orbit a common gravitational center. We may [...]