You should want your employees to be discoverable by the outside world in a professional context. They’re discoverable anyway, thanks to Google and s… - Reid Hoffman

If you are not receiving or making at least one introduction a month, you are probably not fully engaging your extended professional network.

But even when performance deteriorates, it’s still important to remember that the alliance is a relationship, not a transaction. Ups and downs are inevitable, and both sides should maintain a long-term investment perspective rather than responding in knee-jerk fashion to short-term turbulence. A baseball team would never cut a player simply because he had a bad game. But if the player experienced a month-long slump, the team might very well trade or release him.

you need to think and act like you’re running a start-up: your career.