Lou Diamond, author of Master the Art of Connecting, talks about the difference between networking and connecting. He defines a network as the people you know, your contacts; whereas connecting means your main focus is working with someone you intend to have a longer, more meaningful relationship with. Increasing your network, he adds, means meeting more people, but everyone should strive to make more meaningful connections instead. Diamond, who has always had a talent of connecting with people, left a lucrative Wall Street career to become a business coach in order to help c-suite executives and companies understand what they want to do, where they want to take their business, and how to achieve that. He also cautions that in order to make a connection, people have to put the work in and adds, "If you really help people understand the power of connecting, you're changing the world."
—C-Suite TV