Matt Hawksley: Learning in the Open
September 29, 2026
Leadogo founder Matt Hawksley on leaving a 20-year logistics career, the 40-day road trip that launched his reinvention, learning in the open, and mentoring entrepreneurs in Ghana.
Tag: Networking
Real networking is a long game of giving before asking. These articles cover building professional relationships that lead somewhere, from conferences and referrals to the online connections that turn into work.
Business BooksBehind the Book: Networking Without the BS
September 1, 2026
A system went down on a Friday night and I discovered that twenty years in the industry had produced nobody I could call. I sat in an empty office surrounded by broken computers and worked out what was missing.
For Executives & ProfessionalsCraig Leonard: Your LinkedIn Profile Is Not Your Resume
August 15, 2026
LinkedIn strategist Craig Leonard on how the interest-based algorithm decides who sees you, why most profiles read like resumes, and where AI helps and where it wrecks the job.
For Executives & ProfessionalsAnthony Markey: Everybody Is Worth a Coffee
August 14, 2026
Insurance broker and I Know A Guy Iowa host Anthony Markey returns to explain why everybody is worth a coffee, and why the person you let talk is the one who refers you.
CybersecurityThe Ransomware Years: When Laptops Became Bricks
July 4, 2026
Somebody opened a link, and their machine was a brick. Literally unrecoverable. Across a fleet of 1,500 desktops and laptops we lost machines to ransomware over and over, and never lost the network, because the network was designed by people…
CybersecurityThe Infection That Kept Coming Back
July 4, 2026
Clean machine A. While you are cleaning machine B, machine C reinfects A. We played whack-a-mole against a network worm that never got tired, and lost, until we stopped treating machines and started treating the network.
CybersecurityDefense in Layers: Why One Scanner Is Zero Scanners
July 4, 2026
The fake UPS email arrived five minutes after my real eBay order, pixel-perfect, and I clicked it. Then the screen turned red: infection stopped, infection stopped, infection stopped. That is what layers are for, because the one filter that always…
For Executives & ProfessionalsThe System Crashed on a Friday Night. I Had Nobody to Call.
June 13, 2026
A complete failure, millions on the line by Monday morning, every vendor number unanswered. Twenty years in the industry and not one person I could call.
Grief and LossRon Sukenick Tribute Page
May 30, 2026
A tribute to Ron Sukenick, founder of The Relationship Strategies Institute, author of Networking Your Way to Success, and master of the giver's philosophy of networking.
Business BooksWhy I Love Eliances: The Networking Group That Actually Works
February 9, 2026
Most networking groups are stale coffee and a parade of elevator pitches, everyone selling, nobody listening, a wasted morning in a hotel conference room. Eliances is the rare exception, and after nine months I still look forward to Tuesdays because…
CommunicationNetworking Without the BS: Building Relationships That Actually Hold
November 3, 2025
An introvert spent 20 years avoiding networking, then a Trader Joe's system failure left him with no one to call. This is what he learned the hard way.
Authority BuildingNetworking Unleashed: Building Profitable Connections.
May 12, 2025
Richard Lowe (The Writing King) joins Michael A. Forman on Networking Unleashed: Building Profitable Connections for a conversation built around one