Why we no longer need the BNI Basket in the “I Have Portionâ€
To answer this statement we first “NEED†to define need; a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation; need also means commitment, demand, obligation, urgency and essential. When I really want to know the meaning of a word, I like to find out what it doesn’t mean, its antonyms, which are; nonessential, comfort and luxury.
I think that you can probably see we don’t “need†the basket. I bet we needed the basket in 1985 when Dr. Misner started what turned out to be the first BNI chapter of many. I would like you to imagine with me 30 years ago and all the changes that have been made.
No internet! No email, no cell phones, no smart phones and most people did not have a personal computer in their business or homes. We used pagers, briefcases, land lines, lead was in our fuel, and it was a long distance phone call with a hefty fee to most of our neighboring towns where we did business.