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Traveling with Your LinkedIn Network
In this era of virtual collaboration and e-mail, business travel is rarely the only way to get work done. Rather, we get on that plane or train or ferry because we think our work will be facilitated by actual in-person face time, because we recognize that there is work that can only be done effectively in the context of a relationship deepened with face-to-face conversation.
Building and supporting relationships is thus the real work of business travel. As you’re organizing your travel, it’s helpful to keep that purpose front-and-center in your planning and to constantly ask how your business travel is supporting the relationships you already have or want to create.
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