I was fortunate enough to attend an event recently that a very well know MS superstar was presenting at, I arrived slightly late and the only seating room was in the front row with about 8 others. So I quietly sat and enjoyed the excellent presentation.
At the first break the MS hero took his microphone off and 6 of the other people in the row stood up instantly and quite literally skipped towards the podium forming an MVP wall of knowledge around the hero. On their way back I could see several of them proudly sporting MVP shirts and one of the others I recognised as another MVP that I had some knowledge of.
At the time I cringed a little, these guys were all blatantly trying to befriend this poor MS superstar as well as try to outsmart him on several topics that were unrelated to the presentation. The introductions that went along the lines of "Hi, I’m John Smith, MVP of XXX" accompanied by the longing look of "Please please know who I am" made me smile inside.
Next break arrived, MS man popped his microphone down again and... yup, the same six jumped up again along with another couple of folk.
The Most Valued Phanboy program is an excellent way of rewarding the good in the MS community, but after witnessing this I have to say that I was a little bit disgusted at the behaviour of these MVP’s. Rather than make it look like a fantastic gang of helpful product experts they succeeded in making it look like a really unwelcoming clique.
Obviously this is my view of one event and undoubtedly not representative of the community as a whole.
Glad to hear these have worked for you, certainly seems like you have put some of the lessons into practise and have come out the other side better for it.
Another question - which books are you not giving away? - which ones are staying firmly on your bookshelf?
Wow - impressive list of personal development books.
Your bookshelf looks a bit like my own, the numbers in yours certainly eclipses mine.
I'd be keen to hear, after digesting all that information, what’s changed? - are you "personally developed", more confused or exactly the same?
I usually find that these books feel very "samey" after a while and feel that there is certainly a limit to the number of things these books can tell you.
I was fortunate enough to attend an event recently that a very well know MS superstar was presenting at, I arrived slightly late and the only seating room was in the front row with about 8 others. So I quietly sat and enjoyed the excellent presentation.
At the first break the MS hero took his microphone off and 6 of the other people in the row stood up instantly and quite literally skipped towards the podium forming an MVP wall of knowledge around the hero. On their way back I could see several of them proudly sporting MVP shirts and one of the others I recognised as another MVP that I had some knowledge of.
At the time I cringed a little, these guys were all blatantly trying to befriend this poor MS superstar as well as try to outsmart him on several topics that were unrelated to the presentation. The introductions that went along the lines of "Hi, I’m John Smith, MVP of XXX" accompanied by the longing look of "Please please know who I am" made me smile inside.
Next break arrived, MS man popped his microphone down again and... yup, the same six jumped up again along with another couple of folk.
The Most Valued Phanboy program is an excellent way of rewarding the good in the MS community, but after witnessing this I have to say that I was a little bit disgusted at the behaviour of these MVP’s. Rather than make it look like a fantastic gang of helpful product experts they succeeded in making it look like a really unwelcoming clique.
Obviously this is my view of one event and undoubtedly not representative of the community as a whole.