the messages posted on My Linkedin Power Forum, a few
recent posts have caused me a bit of concern about the
potential of our missing out on the opportunity
Linkedin affords those of us who want to use it as
designed, as formulated by its creators.
MLPF is here for Linkedin best practices and for
constructive criticism. MLPF is not for messages
encouraging people to cheat LinkedIn any more than we
would encourage each other to cheat anyone else we're
in a business relationship with. MLPF is not here to
encourage any member to obstruct any other Linkedin
member interested in developing their businesses via
Linkedin.
Linkedin is not perfect and is not going to be
perfect.
The same with MLPF.
The same with your business, your products, your
services.
We are simply never going to reach perfection where
there is nothing for anyone to complain about.
Moreover, whereas unfair complaints reflect more on
the complainer than on the product, a good complaint,
good constructive criticism, can lead to a
continuously superior product.
And that's one of the reasons I set up
LinkedinTomorrow so that those who wanted to discuss
Linkedin product development could have a good place
to work out ideas about tomorrow's version of
Linkedin, today:
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/LinkedinTomorrow/
I encourage those of you who are committed to
participating in the development of Linkedin to
consider signing up for that forum and taking a
leadership role in helping to advance Linkedin's
platform. (I accidentally wrote platforum! :-))
There is still an inordinate amount of good that we
can get out of Linkedin IF we focus on the good that's
on Linkedin today and contribute in helping each other
to get maximum value out of our current memberships.
I'm not a Pollyanna. But I insist that we don't have
to cheat, we don't have to be mean-spirited, nor do we
have to malign the good work of others in order to
improve our own businesses - AT ALL!
And on a peripheral matter:To me, cheating is just
passing around a mental disease based upon laziness,
self-centeredness, a poor imagination, and the
impatience to do things the right way.
And though I've had my temptations to do so, I don't
like my work when I find that I had to cheat to get
something I want. YUCK! (This is not saying anything
against "cheatsheets" which are doing nothing more
than codifying shortcuts to help increase our
productivity.)
The above being said: I want to leave you with a word
of encouragement I heard today from Guy Kawasaki of
Garage Technology Ventures as presented through the
Standford Technology Venture Program.
He says that the core of why you should start a
company is to make meaning. He emphatically
distinguishes between the success of businesses
started for making meaning and those started
exclusively for making money.
Kawasaki goes on to say that there are 3 ways for
entrepreneurs to make meaning in business:
1. Increase quality of life
2. Right a wrong
3. Prevent the end of something good
While there have been men and women who've attempted
to stop MLPF from helping you to use Linkedin the
right way - and there are likely to be others from
time to time in our future - I intend to continue
developing MLPF around the above 3 ways that Kawasaki
so definitively espouses. So, I dedicate MLPF to 1.)
helping you to increase the quality of your business
life via Linkedin, 2.)where possible, righting the
wrong practices that are straining to seep into the
linking practices Linkedin recommends, 3.) working to
prevent the end of Linkedin as our favorite way of
linking with one another for our businesses and for
our careers.
With that in mind, I strongly encourage you listen to
Guy Kawaski's super-brief presentation that's pregnant
with meaning for Linkedin and for your business and
mine.
Here's the link, but you might have to join the
Stanford Technology Ventures Program in order to
listen to the video:
http://vodwins.stanford.edu/stvp/kawa/13kawa.asx
PLEASE join me in continuing to develop positive
practices and positive means of developing our
networks so that our networks will have more meaning
for us and for those we support.
Thank you.
Vincent Wright
Creator/Moderator,
My Linkedin Power Forum
Linkedin @ MyLinkedinPowerForum.com
860-524-5077
Skype = WrightWayCoaching
10 Aug 2005
Thanks!
Vincent Wright
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