How to Be a Power Connector: The 5+50+100 Rule for Turning Your Business Network into Profits

Phase 2: Target, Connect, and Engage—Maximize Your Time with Every Connection

I don’t have a Rolodex. I have relationships.

—DAVID BAKER, AVALON INTERNATIONAL GROUP

Power connectors are very deliberate in seeking out the people and ecosystems to add to their Key 50 and Vital 100; but they also are open to the magic of synchronistic meetings. Recently I met Dr. Reatha Clark King while we were both brushing our teeth in the ladies’ room at Reagan National Airport near Washington, DC. I discovered she was the former head of the General Mills Foundation ...