Tweet Associations are frameworks that allow connections to be made. Put yourself into the most relevant ones! You’ve just arrived to your new country (if not, imagine you have…). You are alone and have no safety-net of friends. You know you need to build your network. Where do you start? When choosing which associations to [...]
Tweet There is no “one-size-fits-all” recipe for networking. This makes it harder than building rockets! Networking is sometimes dismissed as a “soft skill”. I’ve heard it from colleagues in both of my backgrounds: engineering and finance. What makes networking hard is the fact that there are no recipes that work all the time. You need [...]
Tweet Who will benefit form what you are reading now? This is the question you should always ask yourself. When you read an article, either in the press or a trade magazine, always keep your mind trying to find people in your network who would benefit from reading that article. One of the questions oftentimes [...]
Tweet The film The Social Network deals about the origins of one of the greatest online networking platforms: Facebook. Nevertheless, it depicts three very good reasons to network face-to-face. Trust is built faster face-to-face. When the Winklevoss brothers want to convince Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook co-founder) to work on their website project, they meet him face-to-face. [...]
