I am currently involved in a new business development project – you know the kind: Constant wheel spinning trying to get traction while at the same time sucking all of the oxygen out of your life.
And there are good days and bad days. Good days when you feel euphoric and bad days when you just want to stick your head under a faucet. This week has finally seen two good days in a row where pitch meetings with potential partners went very well. (They will sign up officially, won’t they?) I can feel the wheels occasionally grabbing hold a bit even if they are still spinning a lot.
And then you have one of those kindred spirit encounters that really put a glow on the end of a long week. I had one of those yesterday.
A brief chance meeting turned into a quick lunch and three hours later we were still sitting at the window table of this little café delving into the who, what, how, and when of a significant potential business initiative tangentially related to the biz dev project.
The new initiative may or may not click, and it may or may not leverage the biz dev project, but it was one of those exhilarating intellectual moments when you feel yourself connecting with someone, whom you have previously known only casually, on multiple levels at the same time with ideas flowing rapidly between you as the energy and excitement about the prospects build.
Now if I good just gen up a day like that every week or so…
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