Comments on: Branding: Tending the Front Door http://www.dr-smith.info/branding-tending-the-front-door/ Senior Adviser, Board Member, Executive Coach, Author Sat, 17 Sep 2011 14:00:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mili Lewis http://www.dr-smith.info/branding-tending-the-front-door/comment-page-1/#comment-8830 Mili Lewis Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:45:04 +0000 http://www.dr-smith.info/?p=208#comment-8830 Thank you for the valuable advice and insight. I am facinated with your account of the apple advocate and am afraid I would have been unable to contain my curiosity as to why he thought the product superior. Perhaps I would have wasted valuable network time, but maybe I could have pinned it down, to say 3 areas of superiority and had insight to what barriers were present in the apple population which could provide input and additional perspective to the interest group. I am not sure from your example how much of an opinion former or influencer this person was and what if any would have been the advantages of injecting 'contension' into the team debate, maybe using the leverage of criticism in improving the solution (to emulate the features or even improve the features of your team's solution). On the life coach individual, perhaps his perspective was that the skills identified were 'transferable' to life situations, which is how I would have viewed his comment, perhaps wrongly, since I do not have from the written transcript any soft clues of body language etc. Definitely thought provoking. Thanks again. Kind regards Mili Thank you for the valuable advice and insight.

I am facinated with your account of the apple advocate and am afraid I would have been unable to contain my curiosity as to why he thought the product superior. Perhaps I would have wasted valuable network time, but maybe I could have pinned it down, to say 3 areas of superiority and had insight to what barriers were present in the apple population which could provide input and additional perspective to the interest group.

I am not sure from your example how much of an opinion former or influencer this person was and what if any would have been the advantages of injecting ‘contension’ into the team debate, maybe using the leverage of criticism in improving the solution (to emulate the features or even improve the features of your team’s solution).

On the life coach individual, perhaps his perspective was that the skills identified were ‘transferable’ to life situations, which is how I would have viewed his comment, perhaps wrongly, since I do not have from the written transcript any soft clues of body language etc.

Definitely thought provoking. Thanks again.

Kind regards
Mili

]]> By: Jonathan Ratcliff http://www.dr-smith.info/branding-tending-the-front-door/comment-page-1/#comment-8825 Jonathan Ratcliff Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:53:21 +0000 http://www.dr-smith.info/?p=208#comment-8825 I really enjoyed your article and I will be saving it for future reference. There are a lot of excellent networking lessons here. Thank you. I really enjoyed your article and I will be saving it for future reference. There are a lot of excellent networking lessons here. Thank you.

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