What’s Wrong With The Future of Your Network?
The news that many of the schools in the Big XII are being courted to join other conferences is big news in these parts of Texas. What I find most surprising about all of this, is that people are actually surprised.
And even if you aren’t a fan of college sports, you can learn a lot from others’ mistakes.
With the demise of the Southwest conference, the Texas schools were looking for a home, and the Big 8 schools were looking for a larger television audience. Voila, the Big XII Conference was born.
And so the Big XII was a marriage of convenience. And convenient relationships last until they are either no longer convenient, or a better offer comes along.
The same fate is waiting for the relationships in your network, or even alliances and joint ventures between organizations. Unless you work on developing relationships on a personal level, built on trust, they will be just as fragile as the Big XII.
Look into the future at your own relationships. Which relationships would not surprise you if they were to dissolve? What can you do about it?
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