Business minded or Selfish Jerk
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“Dr. Misner,
I love your podcast. I come from an community that networking is not taught and you give a bunch of meat. I love learning new things and your perspective on situations are very different from mine and I enjoy it very much. Thank you for starting this company!!
The meat.
I have recently started a chapter with a rock star who is all about relationships!! My motives were to make money and build relationships during the process of making money. This person is awesome. Stared in October 2019 with 4 and July 2020 at 50+ members. We are moving in the right direction. Here is where I think I made my first mistake. I’m in life insurance and I only do life insurance no P&C, supplemental, etc.. Thinking of growth, we decide to add another Insurance person in the group.
1st question while building a business thinking there is enough business for everyone the BNI moto etc, would you add your competition to a growing chapter?
2nd question would you have going a group with a P&C person you didnt have a relationship with?
Fast forward, the P&C person did not follow up on referrals and was not doing givers gain. They are gone. The other insurance person in the chapter who is a good BNI member to chapter, good person wants that seat.
Back story to this part is, I gave this person the opportunity to win my business and the person who is trying to move into the seat passed me to their assistant (ok I get it) and the assistant attempts to sell me life insurance!!!! (in the back of my mind I'm thinking to myself why would I ever send this person any referrals when her own people are trying to sell me!!) Next thing this person has given me one referral to date and I have given 4 or 5 referrals to this person, would have given more but I was given the referrals to the other person who was in the P & C even after hearing they are not following up on referrals. Keep in mind we are both on the leadership team me VP them Membership committee.
Last questions to you are:
Would you vote to allow this person to have that seat?
This is where I could be considered a jerk and for me its business and I wasn’t getting it so I tried to fix it. We had 5 votes, we had 2 yes and I said No and may had another vote with me. I felt like if I didn’t do everything I could to get a person I know who doesn’t do what I do (a unicorn) in that seat. With that said would you actively campaign to not put that person in that seat for those reasons and do you feel this is being a selfish person? Next does that person moving to that seat make them selfish for changing seats to get more business?”Read full review »
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