The Alaska Relationship Philosophy

Alaska has a very concentrated network. Let me explain. I always had the philosophy that when I was doing recruiting that you treat everyone as if they are a possible employee, a possible client. Maybe they'll going to be your boss someday, maybe you're going to be working with their best friend. You never know how the relationships are going to turn out. And I actually designed my entire recruiting process to based on that one core philosophy. Treat everybody as if you had a relationship with them in some other way. This came to light very evidently to me yesterday. So recently my son returned from college. He's home, he's been looking for a job and he interviewed at a place last week. And yesterday, Monday morning, he got a job offer that was probably about 9 o' clock in the morning. At 4:30 that afternoon, I went to go do a workout with a small group and a woman was there that I hadn't seen in probably three or four months. And she came up to me, she said, hey, I think your son is working with my partner. Less than eight hours after he signed the offer letter, the ink wasn't even dry. It had already perpetuated out to my network. That is how concentrated things are in Alaska. And it amazes me every time it happens. But I think that philosophy of treating people as if you might work for them, they might work for you, or they might be your next best friend, you never know that philosophy. I try to take that even outside of Alaska where things aren't as concentrated and I think it'll serve me well. Maybe it'll serve you well or give you some ideas to think about how you treat people that just barely come into your life. You never know when they might make a boomerang and come back in some different way. Have a great Tuesday. Thanks. Cheers.