The way that you treat people when you are interacting with them from your professional capacity defines your career.
Good business is trying to think of ways to treat people well rather than trying to think of excuses to treat them badly. Treating people well includes setting boundaries and saying "No" when you have to do those things.
When you consistently practice good business, over time you will develop relationships that will help you to start again if something terrible happens. You will also be able to evaluate failure, free both of crippling self-recrimination and denial that could mislead you to expand your mistake. There is no person who has never failed or who will never fail.
Being a good business person does not guarantee that everyone whom you meet will also be a good business person. However, over time you will gain a reputation that will cause people whose work is of high quality to want to work with you.
Nobody perfectly applies any principle to his or her personal or professional behavior. However, the more that you adhere to good principles, the happier and more respectably successful you will be.
Copyright L. Kochman, August 5, 2016 @ 8:40 p.m.
