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“80 percent of building and maintaining relationships is just staying in touch.”
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“When it comes to relationship maintenance, you have to be on your game 24/7, 365 days a year.”
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…read books and magazines, listen to educational tapes, attend three to five conference a year, take a course or two, and develop relationships with the leaders in your field.
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Over time, the hours you put in developing relationships with journalists will pay off…
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Mentoring is a very deliberate activity that requires people to check their ego at the door, hold back from resenting other people’s success, and consciously strives to build beneficial relationships…
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A successful mentoring relationship needs equal parts utility and emotion. You can’t simply ask somebody to be personally invested in you. There has to be some reciprocity involved…
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Technology has proved no substitute for personal relationships. To the contrary, it seems to be enhancing them.
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Living a connected life leads one to take a different view. Life is less a quest than a quilt… the relationships we weave become an exquisite and endless pattern.
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All great relationships, the ones that last over time, require productive conflict in order to grow. This is true in marriage, parenthood, friendship, and certainly business.
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Members of great teams improve their relationships by holding one another accountable, thus demonstrating that they respect each other and have high expectations for one another’s performance.
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