http://www.educatedbeing.com/2007/04/16/dang-i-promised-more-than-i-can-deliver-part-1/ Don't give. Educate. Don't take. Learn. Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:38:20 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.educatedbeing.com/2007/04/16/dang-i-promised-more-than-i-can-deliver-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-1915 Dang, I promised more than I can deliver (Part 2) » Educated Being Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:48:19 +0000 http://www.educatedbeing.com/2007/04/16/dang-i-promised-more-than-i-can-deliver-part-1/#comment-1915 [...] We are social animals. We cannot survive alone. We develop relationships to grow and prosper. In each relationship we are branded, sometimes without us knowing. Agree or not, but every day we are trying to market and enhance our personal brand, ‘Me Inc.’, in personal and professional relationships. The simplest way to improve our brand image is to keep the promises we make. But it is easy to say and difficult to do. It is even harder to deliver more than promised. In the previous post, we discussed about why we tend to make promises that we cannot/don’t intend to keep. Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies. - Benjamin Franklin [...] [...] We are social animals. We cannot survive alone. We develop relationships to grow and prosper. In each relationship we are branded, sometimes without us knowing. Agree or not, but every day we are trying to market and enhance our personal brand, ‘Me Inc.’, in personal and professional relationships. The simplest way to improve our brand image is to keep the promises we make. But it is easy to say and difficult to do. It is even harder to deliver more than promised. In the previous post, we discussed about why we tend to make promises that we cannot/don’t intend to keep. Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies. – Benjamin Franklin [...]

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