A friend of mine sent me this posting on the “Ask Annie” blog at Fortune.com. It always amazes me that this topic comes up so often with women. As you know, I love golf, but I never had to play golf to get ahead at work. Golf provides an opportunity to socialize over business and to build relationships, but so does lunch, drinks after work, a hockey game…lots of things. Golf always gets a bad rap, however, from non-golfers.
I hate hockey, but if I knew a client loved hockey, I’d get us tickets and take him/her to the game. It’s about connecting with your clients/partners/associates. No one HAS to play golf to get ahead, but it does help because it is such a social game.
Oh well…I guess I’m preaching to the converted, but it bugs me when people whine about business and golf.
Enough said 
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golfgal
http://askannie.blogs.fortune.com/2007/04/20/must-i-play-golf-to-get-ahead/
April 21, 2007 at 10:42 pm |
Tell me about it…the slamming of golf by non-golfers caused me to write a book about how business and golf go together. The bad rap is hurting the game as well as business.
http://innovativebusinessgolf.com