First up, I didn’t know you visited my blog Thx!

I think you raise a valid point, perhaps you could define your perspective of ‘getting personal’ as I’d like to be clear on what you mean.

Also you are correct I should have been even more clearer and stated that some of these tips apply to just about anyone who works!

Ginger, I think one should definitely be them self in all aspects of life, but when it comes to business and your career goals, my experience has been ultimately that each situation is different so you don’t need to consider every situation with the same tone.

For example, I have a great client right now who I consider friends as well, they trust me implicitly, we are very informal, but we both have goals that we want to achieve for our ventures so to other parties we appear with as much ‘professionalism’ as possible but behind closed doors, we’re ‘chill’ and don’t hold anything back.

I do feel that in some situations you have to separate friendship (or informality) from business so as to protect or strengthen the goal(s) you are trying to achieve.

Another food for thought…

In the end if you are yourself, truthful, respectable and respecting to all, don’t act like a ‘know-it-all’, you perform well and the other party is happy with you, I firmly believe in “what goes around comes around” applies here as well. Any success I have had in my career has benefited from this logic. When my clients or colleagues are content, they praise me or hype me up to others leaving me to continually be humble.