Darci Riesenhuber of Tom Peters Company submitted this blog entry.
I just attended a WIT (Women in Technology) event where my friend, David Nour (www.nourgroup.com) spoke about his trademark concept, Relationship Economics. He told a story about introducing two colleagues to each other. One, a lawyer who’d been with a large firm for five years, had never met his colleague who’d worked at the same firm for nearly 10 years, until David introduced them to each other! (Obviously a very large firm.) But, think about it … how much knowledge is wasted, talent goes unrecognized, best practices aren’t shared in an environment where colleagues don’t spend enough time out of their 5’x5′ spaces to connect with their own peers. Then suddenly I’m struck by the irony … I’m at an event whose target audience is people in the technology sector … listening to how communication between individuals is broken. People don’t know how to establish, nurture, and leverage relationships. So, I ask you … with so much “connectivity” how can we not be connected?