I had (what to me) was amazing news this weekend.

Leadership Turn is listed as one of Strategic Strategist’s 2009 Top Business Blogs. It not only made the list, but is number 16, just two places behind Guy Kawasaki.

I’m unfamiliar with Strategic Strategist and have no idea what, if anything, this means, but still! So I told some friends and my b5 cohorts and received some very nice congratulatory emails telling me that I deserved it, etc. Fun!

But it got me to thinking once again that I just don’t have the ego for the networked, self-promoted, memememe world I live in.

It’s not that I don’t believe I have a lot to offer.

I think I’m a hell of a writer and that what I say has value, whether it’s of direct use or stimulates new thought paths.

To be honest, I’m often blown away when I read old posts here or at MAPping Company Success and realize I wrote them. The same goes for my book, The Swamp & the Alligators: a slightly irreverent guide to career planning and the search process. It’s 16 years old now and it’s still on Amazon.

I know my coaching is valuable and that it’s unique; it takes a different approach from much of the other coaching available.

But I’m always a bit amazed when others see its value.

Believe me, it’s not humility or any of those supposedly noble feelings. It’s just that it surprises me when the outside world agrees with me.

As my readers know, I’m very opinionated, but that doesn’t mean I assume or expect anyone else to agree—in spite of the law of averages saying that some will.

I’m lousy at “working the room,” whether in the real or cyber world.

Back when I attended parties I would hang out helping in the kitchen and over the course of the evening most of the interesting people would wander in and end up staying for the kind of conversation you can sink your teeth into (I’ve always been lousy at small talk).

I seem to do cyberspace the same way.

And, I’m grateful to say, the interesting people keep wandering in and staying to talk.

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