Business Confidants

Confidants are the people that you can tell everything...........the good, bad, and ugly.........and get their respectable feedback and advice on various situations.  You know that they will tell you how they feel, even if it's not the feedback you want.  You respect it, you trust it, you evaluate it, and you move forward with it's consideration.

All of us need a few of these people.  The higher you get up the food-chain, the less people you have to choose from, and the harder it is to find these people with genuine intentions.  Generally speaking, sales reps have many sales reps to choose from as confidants.  Sales managers have fewer sales managers to choose from.  Directors and executives, have even fewer, and so on.  When you're at the very top, President/CEO, then what?  There are not many people that you can openly discuss sensitive issues at hand, without putting yourself in a compromising situation.

Without confidants, you are on an island.  A lonely place where only you know the situation at hand, only you can muddle through the options of resolution, and you only have your perspective presenting these options.  We need another perspective.  We need people to talk us off the ledge, or bring us down when we get too confident.  These people make our life easier, and help us make better decisions.

I am so thankful for the confidants in my life.  I can't imagine going through life and business alone, with only my own perspective.  Make it a point to get grow your network of confidants, and grow closer to the ones in which you already have established.  They will make you better, and your life more enjoyable.

**I was hoping that AT&T service would improve with the Verizon launch of Iphones..........but my Iphone has given me more fits in the past week than in the entire year prior.