legal sanity

The other day, I watched my young son build an orb-like structure out of Tinkertoys. For those of you needing an introduction, this is a great spoke-and-wheel based construction set that’s been around for several generations (my son plays with my old sets). As I watched him piece his creation together spoke to hub and hub to spoke, I couldn’t help but think about the importance of connectedness and inter-connectedness as we work and play. It’s been a while since I last posted a roundup of current thoughts on networking. This post from the Milestone Group discusses “relationships as currency” and offers bites from a (subscription-only) article from the December 2005 Harvard Business review entitled How to Build Your Network. This article and this one offer lawyers some helpful business development tips. For the introverts among us, tips for the networking-phobic flow in the collaborative text of this post from the Never Work Alone blog. That same post mentions Keith Ferrazzi’s terrific business relationship book Never Eat Alone and tips us to this great bit of networking wisdom from the genius of Dick Richards at Come Gather Round.