"1min in Networking" - we all need each other

Keith Ferrazzi took a very wise and simple approach on how to achieve your personal goals in his book "Never eat alone".

"Do you want to become a CEO or a senator? Rise to the top of your profession or to the top of your child's school board? Make more money or more friends? The more specific you are about what you want to do, the easier it becomes to develop a strategy to accomplish it. Part of that strategy, of course, is establishing relationships with the people in your universe who can help you get where you are going."

In this age of communication we do have easy access to huge amount of contacts we could not imagine to find some years ago. But we should ask ourselves if the quality of those contacts we find are strong enough to help and build a meaningful relationship. We have to think wisely on how to approach them and how we can help them achieving their goals as much as ours. There won't be a better introduction than a good smile and a hand shake to start a good long-term professional relationship.