I'm Back

by Byron Woodson II

I just returned from a scenic almost-vacation in South Carolina. Me and my father drove down there to take my Grandfather his/my 9-foot slate (heavy) pool table. We took the back route, instead of going 95-85 we went over a little bit and went 81-77 which goes through the Shenendoah valley, between the Alleghenies and the Blue Ridge Mountains.

What's this got to do with networking? Well, nothing yet.

While there I plowed through 450 pages of about 650 page biography of U.S. Grant the general who won the Civil War and was later President. The trip took on new meaning because we literally drove through, or at least close to, where some of the major battles of the Civil War were fought, and it was almost like a guided tour.

The biography, by J. E. Smith was a fantastic history of both his generalship and presidency (didn't finish that part yet). It described how he was a failure at pretty much everything except for war. And when he did war, boy did he do war.

What I took away from that was that people love people who are both productive and modest. They like it so much they'll promote you to command armies and even elect you president.

So, while everyone, including myself, is admonishing you to toot your own horn, sharpen up your image, build your brand and basically become your own fan club

. . .

we still want more pudding than proof.