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Liz Ryan

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Liz Ryan

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Liz Ryan is a speaker, author and commentator on the new-millennium workplace, an advisor to organizations on communication and diversity topics and the leader of the global Ask Liz Ryan discussion community.

ARTICLES BY Liz Ryan

Now You Have No Excuse: Summer Networking

networking, summer, friends, contacts, advice

The Crack in the Megaphone

Put down that megaphone before you hurt somebody! Networking isn't about blasting out your daily news to your friends.

You Bad, Bad Businessperson

On the off-chance the lady finds the money to pay my low-low not-for-profit rate, I'll be sure to be busy on the date of that event. I always say life is long, but it's still too short to get mixed up with people who will play you like that - or, more accurately, try to play you.

Networking and Nurturing

Come to the Opera: An Allegory

A friend who found the opera the great est experience of her life

Peggy's Prediction

Sometimes a friend, not as well versed in our careful Self-Description as we are, can nudge us to acknowledge something valuable about our own abilities

Me and Jimmy Swaggart

I'd written a column for Business Week online denouncing my least-favorite corporate HR practice, namely, forced-ranking systems. These are the disgusting performance-review programs that force managers to rank their employees every year on a best-to-worst scale. Don't even get me started about forced-ranking systems, which are the opposite of management programs. They're vile, ineffective, and cowardly, if you want my opinion. But anyway, I said more or less the same thing in this story on the Business Week website, and a gentleman wrote to me about that.

Check out the Constant Networker Blog

Where to find Liz's articles

Of Fish and Fishing Lessons

You can only network with people who share your values

IDK Logic -- or Lack Thereof

Is LinkedIn's IDK functionality -- not 'this invitation is spam' but simply 'I don't know [remember] this person' -- a device for converting free LinkedIn members to paid ones?