If you’re sitting in an important meeting with your biggest client, would you interrupt it for a text message or phone call? Of course not. So why would you do that during a BNI meeting?
There’s no quicker way to undermine your own credibility than to pay attention to the phone and not your fellow BNI members.
“But what if my wife goes into labor?” people ask. Yes, you can make extraordinary exceptions, but in 50 years, Dr. Misner has never been in a room with someone whose wife has gone into labor during a meeting. And nothing less serious is an excuse.
So unless you have a family member about to be born or die, just turn off the phone before you go into a BNI meeting—or any other networking meeting.
Read Dr. Misner’s Business Networking blog post on this topic, and then come back and tell us your ideas for the best way to handle the cell phone plague.
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