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Face-to-face networking is still the key to connections.

Strategy Driven

Rotary has been a great organization to participate in. It is not a sales networking organization. It is a service club that gives you the opportunity to meet and network with others. NOTE FROM JOHN TO NEWCOMERS: When you are brand-new in the sales world, you don't have a lot of things filling your calendar.

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Putting Facebook in Perspective

Harvard Business Review

Brands: From Push to Pull. The third shift affects brands and the ways they engage customers, employees, and the public. They don't need brands to tell them what to buy, where to buy, or when to buy. Their social networks do this for them. Organizations: From Hierarchies to Networks.

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Why the Problem with Learning Is Unlearning

Harvard Business Review

In this model, competitive advantage is achieved by driving costs down, driving prices up, locking in customers, and locking out competitors and entrants. ” But in a networked economy, the nature of strategy, value creation, and competitive advantage change from incremental to exponential.

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