Friend of a friend ...: understanding the hidden networks that can transform your life and your career

Description

"Burkus shows that most of your best connections do not come from close friends but rather from distant, even long-forgotten contacts; that it's the colleagues and influential acquaintances of your best friends who will play a major role in developing your connections; and that your most valuable network in business has much more to do with how you develop these secondary sources in order to springboard your career"--;Find strength in weak ties -- See your whole network -- Become a broker and fill structural holes -- Seek out silos -- Build teams from all over your network -- Become a super-connector -- Leverage preferential attachment -- Create the illusion of majority -- Resist homophily -- Skip mixers -- share activities instead -- Build stronger ties through multiplexity. Find strength in weak ties -- See your whole network -- Become a broker and fill structural holes -- Seek out silos -- Build teams from all over your network -- Become a super-connector -- Leverage preferential attachment -- Create the illusion of majority -- Resist homophily -- Skip mixers -- share activities instead -- Build stronger ties through multiplexity.