Sharing – Nothing New Isn’t It? Part #2

I look back to our visit to the Silicon Valley 2 weeks ago (see Sharing – Nothing New Isn’t It? Part #1) and really feel richer. While some have no problem with putting value on people (based on many things such as assets, successes and so on) it mays seems difficult to put value on relations. But this is essentially what we gained from our trip, not mentionning potential leads on technology transfer, hints or ideas of where we should shop our technologies, some partnerships reinforced.  I recall leaving a meeting with Bill on a Thursday, a meeting organized within the week through LinkedIn, with Thomas, and having the sensation we’d met a real interesting and important person for our business for many reasons. Bill is a successfull,  very high level but he’s also willing to share, comment, discuss. Not saying we stayed there for hours, it was an efficient discussion, perhaps an overall 30 to 45 minutes, which was, I believe, as important for Bill as for us.  We learned that we approached Bill at the perfect time! How did we know? We actually did not! It was pure chance or, should I say, we had pushed our chance to be at the right time arround (this conference in the Silcicon Valley) and contacting him at the right moment. Pure chance! Well perhaps not enterely, since we’ve been proactive in approaching people, presenting our unique organization and portfolfio of technologies. We initiated that sharing process, and got almost 100% positive feedback for face-to-face meetings. Really nothing new about the benefit of sharing, except that in our business we encounter so many people/organization not willing to share.  That’s fine is you believe your organization or yourself is the center of the universe (perhaps you’re but you know you are not alone anymore, competition is worldwide as the economy is!), in any other case, you’ll have to move forward and share what you have. You’d be surprised with the result! Again, many thanks to all the people we’ve met last week and with who we’ll continue to share.