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I am not too happy with the phrasing "Outside of a company there are two types of meetings; 1) When you want something from someone, 2) When they need something
by vaidhy 7y ago
I am not too happy with the phrasing "Outside of a company there are two types of meetings; 1) When you want something from someone, 2) When they need something from you."
I like to think about my meetings as "1)Am I building a relationship? or 2) Is this a transaction?" If it is 1, then I would invest more of my time into this. I do not want to spend a lot of time in building a relationship with my plumber, even though I do want something from them.
I believe the author was thinking the meeting as a relationship building while the founder was treating as a transaction and hence the disconnect.
- econcon 7y agoThere are people tho who want to form new relationships, they start out by doing some favour to you then they expect that you reciprocate it when it doesn't go the way they want it to go, they become your enemy resorting to threat or retaliation Transactional relationships which don't carry over to future are much better. Only thing that should carry over is "trust" not favours. This is commonly known as "nice guy" in popular culture these days.
- GreenJelloShot 7y ago“We’d love to partner with Steve on getting his frameworks and templates from his books – The Four Steps and The Startup Owner’s Manual – onto our product. Can you connect us to him?” That sounds to me like the start of some sort of relationship. If the guy just wanted info from the book, then why not just read the book?