Networking

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Personal Networks are like string bags, any one knot is only connected to, say, four others, but those four are connected to four more, so that the original knot or node or person is only one step away from 12 new people and only two steps removed from a further 36. Faced with a problem to which we don’t know the answer, we call the person most likely to know, if she doesn’t know, she probably knows someone who does …

The help that you get from your network depends upon the strength of your relationship within it. We have strong ties with those people that are regular and frequent contacts,like family members, friends and workmates. We spend a lot of our time in and on these relationships. Therefore we are almost sure to get help from them in a given situation. However, from a networking perspective it turns out that the weak ties are critical for new learning and knowledge. These are people with whom we have infrequent and irregular contact, but can nevertheless reach ...

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