Several moons ago I wrote about the power of your network. I go into greater detail within Chapter 7 of the Flat Army book (The Participative Leader Framework) about the need for leaders to continuously and authentically build out their direct professional and personal networks by being reciprocal and educating. I won’t reveal the source, but the following landed in my inbox today: Hey Dan – I sat in on one of your sessions at the Training Magazine Conference and Expo back in 2011 and recently saw on your blog that you had a book coming out. Congrats! I’ve been using Evernote now for a few months, so naturally I enjoyed seeing how the book was conceived. I also referenced you in a couple sessions
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Those that frequent this space will know I started a tradition in 2011 by instituting a “word of the year“. In 2011, I urged people, teams and organizations to demonstrate reciprocity. I go into further detail about the act of reciprocity in my upcoming book, Flat Army, but in simple terms it’s the behaviour of both giving and taking equally. This is one of the more important traits to employ if you want a Flat Army like organization or team. In 2012, I believed we all could be better interlocutors; capable of acting as a perpetual liaison between groups, ideas, knowledge and people. If you missed it, I thanked a number of interlocutors in my life who have consistently demonstrated this attribute through the blog postings