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You cannot build networks unilaterally. It is more about demonstrating value and trustworthiness to other parties than collecting names. Art credit: Jennifer Thornton

Negotiations are always influenced, often constrained, and sometimes even settled, long before the official talks begin. Use advance meetings to build alliances before the official meeting. Art credit: Jennifer Thornton

From Hirsh, Galinsky & Zhong, 2011, "Drunk, Powerful, and in the Dark: How General Processes of Disinhibition Produce Both Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior“.
Art credit: Jennifer Thornton — From Hirsh, Galinsky & Zhong, 2011, "Drunk, Powerful, and in the Dark: How General Processes of Disinhibition Produce Both Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior“. Art credit: Jennifer Thornton

“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.” - Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest. Art credit: Jennifer Thornton

Get to know people before you need them. Art credit: Avery Brundige

Art credit: Avery Brundige

Using might does not require being a jerk. One of the reasons many aren’t comfortable with coercive power is that there are so few examples of people exercising it with grace. It is definitely possible. Art credit: Avery Brundige

Gain leverage by offering something unavailable from other people.
Art credit: Woody Harrington — Gain leverage by offering something unavailable from other people. Art credit: Woody Harrington

"This was a man who would not bend an inch in his determination to win freedom for his people, nor bow to the cruelty of his prison guards—yet who said to his comrades, 'Chaps, these Afrikaners may be brutal, but they are human beings. We need to und — "This was a man who would not bend an inch in his determination to win freedom for his people, nor bow to the cruelty of his prison guards—yet who said to his comrades, 'Chaps, these Afrikaners may be brutal, but they are human beings. We need to understand them and touch the human being inside them, and win them.' And he did." - Peter Storey, Christian Century. Art credit: Avery Brundige

Art credit: Woody Harrington

Art credit: Avery Brundige

Art credit: Woody Harrington

“Heidi Roizen’s rule of thumb was that each person she invited to a party should know half of the other people invited – enough to create a sense of familiarity, but few enough so that each person had the opportunity to meet new people.” (From “Heidi — “Heidi Roizen’s rule of thumb was that each person she invited to a party should know half of the other people invited – enough to create a sense of familiarity, but few enough so that each person had the opportunity to meet new people.” (From “Heidi Roizen“, HBS case)

As the wise man said, "Dig your well before you need water."

“You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his.” - Kenneth Burke, A Rhetoric of Motives

"There is a curious disconnect between the amount of time we invest in training people how to arrive at the Answer and the amount of time we invest in training them how to Tell Others." -Heath & Heath, 2007, Made to Stick.

"An outstanding musician will have a bunch of pockets to draw from. He’ll be watching the conductor and think, ‘Oh, so that’s how he wants to this part,’ and pull something out of his pocket over here. A young musician might have not so many pockets — "An outstanding musician will have a bunch of pockets to draw from. He’ll be watching the conductor and think, ‘Oh, so that’s how he wants to this part,’ and pull something out of his pocket over here. A young musician might have not so many pockets to draw from." -Seiji Ozawa. dstild is all about giving you more pockets. Art credit: Hania Khan

Art credit: Avery Brundige