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

Strategy Driven

Here’s the background of how to succeed as a local business networker from arguably the toughest sales category on the planet: insurance. Here is John’s story and tips in his own words: When I started in the insurance business, the first things I did was join the Charlotte Chamber. It is not a sales networking organization.

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The Metamorphosis of the CIO

Harvard Business Review

Eventually, businesses became department stores, specialty stores and malls, and finally, today''s e-businesses and networked organizations that support them. The role of management can be broadly thought of as the processes that tie these components together to produce value. Most of these benefits have been achieved.

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