Economy
In reply to the discussion: STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Tuesday, 15 January 2013 [View all]Demeter
(85,373 posts)We are glad to be rank well in a new finance blog tally (thanks to loyal NC readers!), even though this survey is tongue in cheek (it has a methodology which has some logic to it but simultaneously pokes fun at methodologies).
And I also am ambivalent about self promotion. When I started out in the work world, professionals above the level of ambulance-chasers didnt sell their services; they got referrals. They might be active in the community to get known and noticed, but the tacit assumption was if you were good at your work and kept at it, youd develop a good reputation and more business would follow. For instance, when I joined McKinsey (1983), it didnt pitch clients, it responded to inquiries.
But now it seems, people arent active in the community, they network. And the assumption now is that if you dont talk yourself up, it must because you dont have any impressive stuff about you or your business to tout.
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