A few months back I wrote about relationships in terms of how you can use them to bring value to your work, home and spiritual life. Today I want to explore how friendships can impact our professional and personal relationships now and for years to come. I’m looking at this from the viewpoint of how my career has rewarded me with “friendships”, in addition to “relationships” that bring value to a business.
We learn about friendship at any early age. It usually starts with our first friend next door or at pre-school. Those early friendships play an important role in teaching us how to interact with others.
As we become older, we add friends through school activities, sports, scouting, church social functions, and other group or team settings. Through these activities we learn how to interact as a group and begin to foster stronger friendships. Some of these relationships will last a lifetime.
When we enter the work world, we meet more people from other walks of life. Some of those people become lifelong friends. |
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