Tweet You can gather “strong ties” but need to cultivate “weak ties”. In previous posts, I discussed the importance of “weak ties”. Weak ties are the links you have with people that are not close to you. Mark Granovetter, in his seminal article (1973), defines the strength of a tie as: “a combination of the [...]
Tweet In a previous post I wrote about the importance of having people in your network that are not very close to you, called “weak ties”. In this post, I will take the argument further with a personal example. It is via “weak ties” that you can reach people in unrelated networks. For instance, when [...]
Tweet Today (14th February 2010) the Chinese celebrate their New Year, the Year of the Tiger. GuangXi is a very Chinese term. Some claim it is the equivalent of western networking. However, it is much more than that. After reading a few articles on the subject (see some references below), I realised it was not [...]
Tweet Some people have a very large network of contacts with persons very similar to themselves. Other people have a smaller network of very diverse individuals. Which of these two types of network do you think is more valuable? The diverse one, of course! Mark Granovetter published a seminal article about the “strength of weak [...]
Tweet In a previous post, we covered the importance of adapting to the interlocutor when networking across generations. You might think: “Why bother taking so much extra trouble. Let’s not network with those people”. If you think that … think again! Networking across generations can provide very valuable “weak ties”. Weak ties are the links [...]
