Don’t Burn Bridges
It’s a saying that my dad would always tell to me, and I can remember it from a young age.
First I thought it was some way of trying to tell me not to play with matches, but I soon understood and now realise the importance of his advice all those years back (and to this day).
We no longer have a job for life, and in many cases most people do not stay at one particular organisation for more than a few years at best.
Now days your old client could be your new boss, your old boss could be your new client. If you work in a smaller industry where many people are know to each other, this can be amplified to be the best or wort thing that you could hope for.
Someone can be a contact, anyone can be a client but most of all everyone knows someone that you will deal with in the future.
I was given a lesson in this in the most spectacular detail a few months back.
I took on a new client that I had relationships with and was introduced to from multiple angles. They were a former business contact from a job several years back, I had met them at an industry function in a separate job, and the recommendation came through a former co-worker.
Any bad blood at a previous organisation might very well have ruined such an amazing opportunity proving that building bridges is much more prosperous than burning them.
