Chapter 4 Relationships Were Easier in High School

All relationships require intentional work

No human is an island. No business is an island. And no future exists for either in a vacuum.

Thank goodness! None of us knows everything; none of us can be truly independent from others.

Businesses are social systems, technically enabled. That means that they consist of networks of people, institutions, and groups with a structure of roles and status. Those networks are relationships, be they distant and subservient, or tightly connected and peer based. Intention for those networks is integral to how they function. The use of technology in support of those systems is simply a means of distribution and connection, reducing the impact of distance ...

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