Stop Being a Cave Dweller

The “29% Solution” defines a cave dweller as “someone who remains in one of several confined spaces for the duration of the business day, day after day”.

Quite simply, it is a person who starts from the cave of their home and migrates to their work cave and then back to their home cave every day.

They sometimes interrupt their routine to meet with a closed network of business associates for their standard meet and greets, dinners, lunches, bowling, etc. – a closed network, or network cave because it never grows beyond its stable group or constant locales.

Let’s be honest: we come to BNI each week not simply to see the same people week after week; we could do that over cocktails any time we want.

Rather we meet in the hopes that those people are reaching outside of the sphere of BNI into a variety of business groups, social networks, and community organizations. And in that process they are opening up conversations that will directly help us in our businesses.

Networking is a contact sport. You need to get out and move into untested areas and meet people outside your circle of family and work.

Or you had better make your cave the most attractive place in the world so that the rest of the world will come to you. See Nina after the meeting.