It is more about putting yourself in a context where both parties can be relaxed and both parties can get to know each other as people -- not just as business people.
(Many executives) will not enter into a relationship because they will not feel comfortable conducting business with someone that they do not feel 100 percent comfortable with.
He owes me a steak dinner when he wins. I was in Vegas on business while he was in college and took him to eat steak and told him to order whatever he wanted. I told him he could buy me one with the winnings of his first PGA Tour title.
He owes me a steak dinner when he wins, ... I was in Vegas on business while he was in college and took him to eat steak and told him to order whatever he wanted. I told him he could buy me one with the winnings of his first PGA Tour title.
You could say that business is business in the West, and business is personal everywhere else,