Patricia A. Hoffmeir

Networking. It's a common, if not overused term; yet many underestimate its long-term importance. Whether you've asked for help in identifying a tutor, or called upon a colleague as a reference - you've networked. You've been networking in one way or another for your entire life.

 

Just as computer networks increase efficiency, professional networks expand your contacts and spheres of influence in becoming known to those who recognize your capabilities. Tyler & Company's Chairman and CEO (and my boss), J. Larry Tyler, believes what matters most "is not who you know, but who knows you because of your good work and demonstrated ability." This differentiation can make the difference between your career advancement or stagnation. 

 

So let's talk about ways to make your network work. 

 

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Pointy-haired Boss:   We're hiring a Director of Change Management to help employees embrace                                           strategic changes.

Dilbert:                      Or we could come up with strategies that make sense. Then employees would                                      embrace change.

Pointy-haired Boss:   That sounds harder.

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Pointy-haired Boss:   Your compensation will be based on achieving these goals.

Dilbert:                      Awesome. It's like written permission to ignore everything else you asked me to                                   do.

Pointy-haired Boss:   It's not like that at all.

Dilbert:                     Get back to me when you finish debating yourself.

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Pointy-haired Boss:   Dilbert, I need you to take care of this.

Dilbert:                      I'd love to. But it isn't on the list of priorities you gave me an hour ago.

Pointy-haired Boss:   Do what I tell you to do, not what I say you should do.

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Asok:                       I completed the busywork you assigned to me and I'm still cheerful! I don't know                                  how I do it. I really don't. I assume it's a form of insanity. Do you have more                                          worthless assignments I could do before I seek professional help?

Pointy-haired Boss:   Yup.

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Wally:                       I would like to be evaluated on my output, not the hours I work.

Pointy-haired Boss:   Okay. That sounds reasonable.

Wally:                       t does? Wow. And I'd also like to work at home where there are fewer distractions                                 so I can be more productive.

Pointy-haired Boss:   Okay. That makes sense.

Wally:                       Really? I mean...Great! I'd also like to work on long-term projects that have no                                       near-term deliverables. [Silently: Holy grail. Holy grail. Holy grail.]

Pointy-haired Boss:   Go back to your cubicle and don't leave until five o'clock.

Wally:                       [Talking with Dilbert] I was this close to retiring at full pay.

 

Dilbert by Scott Adams

 

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

Gloria Steinem

 

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

 

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

Doug Larson

 

I never learned anything while I was talking.

Larry King

 

There wouldn't be a sky full of stars if we were all meant to wish on the same one.

Frances Clark

 

It's not easy being grateful all the time. But it's when you feel least thankful that you are most in need of what gratitude can give you.

 

Finally recognize that no one is responsible for your life but you. That you're creating your current and future reality thought by thought. And that what you give your attention to only gets bigger and manifests itself in the world. So try to live a life focusing on what's good and what you're grateful for, in order to have more goodness. That doesn't mean you're in control of everything, or that only good is going to come. Bad stuff still happens...When conditions are right for a tsunami or tornado, that tsunami or tornado is going to show up. But the wonder of life is that even in despair, when things seem hopeless, you still get to choose what you want to be and how you respond...Life isn't about what you have; it's about what you have to give.

Oprah Winfrey

 

Equality is freedom from having to be twice as good to get ahead.

Touré

 

Self-trust is the wellspring of courage.

Anonymous

 

Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavor, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions..."

Aung San Suu Kyi

 

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.

Ernest Shackleton

 

You lose in the end unless you know how the wheel is fixed or can fix it yourself.

Edna Ferber

 

It's these turnaround or these pivotal moments that introduce you to yourself...these small or these huge catastrophic events in your life-I do think that that's where you really meet yourself.

Sheryl Crow

 

"...see how the flesh grows back across a wound, with a great vehemence, more strong than the simple, untested surface before. There's a name for it on horses, when it comes back darker and raised: proud flesh, as all flesh is proud of its wounds, wears them as honors given out after battle, small triumphs pinned to the chest-"

Jane Hirshfield, from For What Binds Us

 

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.

Zig Ziglar

 

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