Minutes of April 2 meeting

Minutes of Meeting April 2, 2008


Minutes of MLBT

In attendance: Roy Innella, .Susan Shute and Joe Davison

Absent: Josh Isler, David Luce, Paul McCabe, and Ron Bridge

Susan was a most gracious host to Roy and me. Was not much that we, as a trio, could accomplish but the following points were addressed:

1. Commitment: This idea of a power network group will only succeed if ALL members are committed to make it succeed. Investment of our collective time, which can be used elsewhere valuably, should yield returns. Based on Post-meeting Emails received this morning, it has already done so. On a personal note, stiffing a host, without advance notice, is unprofessional and I will leave it at that.

2. Group Size and Specialties. Roy, Susan and I concurred that One on One meetings have been a great success so far and should continue on a periodic basis. Again, post-meeting emails confirm this point of view. Susan is going to explore a residential broker contact, as well as a HR HealthCare contact over the next few days. I am going to pursue a commercial/development real estate contact. The three of us agreed we definitely should try to find a member with CPA practice that shares our views as to mutual aggressive networking. Idea is to get the group to a working maximum of 10 to 12 committed individuals.

3.. Next meeting: Lunch at Executive Suites in Strafford, I will be glad to host…first week in May, exact day and time to be determined shortly.

Secretary’s Synopsis: Same as Last: Priority on COMMUNICATION through group interaction 1/1 mtgs and blog; recruiting of other professionals to fill out the group in a systematic and logical manner.
Narrative note: Businesses, and organizations, such as we are trying to put together are in many ways like infants when first starting out…there will be a few skinned shins as we learn how to walk, but eventually we will run with abandon.

Again, thanks to Susan Shute and Bryn Mawr Trust for their hospitality this morning.

Duly submitted,

Joe Davison