The Introduction Rule Almost Nobody Follows Anymore

🔗 Learn how to make introductions that put guests at ease, plus host a dinner you can sit down at: https://ashworthtable .com/ Two strangers get left standing together while someone trades a pair of bare names and walks off. One smiles. The other stares at the floor. The old families had a quiet rule for exactly that moment, and it all turned on a single choice: which name you say first. In this one, Charles Ashworth walks through the nearly forgotten order of introductions. Who you honor and why, the categories that decide it, the surprising business exception where the client comes before your own boss, and the old gender custom you still catch in formal rooms. He covers the handshake and the faded "How do you do," the one small thread that turns bare names into a real conversation, how introductions went from almost rude to expected, and what to do when you blank on a name at the worst possible moment. None of it is a ranking of people by worth. It is a small act of consideration anyone can practice, so no one ever gets left standing alone like a piece of furniture.