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Strive for Live Interaction
Today there are so many ways to communicate with each other: mobile phones, text messaging, instant messaging, e-mail, voice mail, and so on. But the most effective communication is not through high-tech, but high-touch.
Assignment
Give some face time today, and go high-touch!
By that we mean direct, daily, live interaction. We’re talking face time here! To build good working relationships, you have to get out from behind the computer, the texting keyboard, and the mobile phone, and get in front of people.
Technology is all about logic, but people are emotional creatures (Idea 77). They don’t connect with a message on a screen. They connect with faces and voices, and they need the other 80 percent of communication—body ...
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