Does the potential impact of this persons ideas, relationships and their social and organizational structures matter?
The only way to know is learn to ask questions that reveal the answer. This where the Circle of Impact Connecting Ideas come in. A starting point for qualifying someone is learning about their purpose, their values and their vision for impact. If these ideas are not clear or not well developed, then it tells you something about them. Of course, anyone well versed in networking practice has learned to have their little spiel prepared to answer these kinds of questions. What matters is not having an answer to what is your purpose, values and vision, but rather demonstrating how those ideas matter in action in your relationships and your activities in the social and organizational structures of your life and work. See how this Circle is completed. The most important aspect of discovering how to qualify your network is becoming a person who matters. In so doing, you learn to discern substance from superficiality. Was it Gandhi who said, “Be the change you want to be.” It applies here. Be t
