“I wrote a letter to a guy called AJF O’Reilly in the HJ Heinz Food Company in Pittsburgh. Me, a total loser. I couldn’t believe he wrote back”
Networking means different things to different people. Kingsley Aikins acknowledges that for many the idea of a networker is somebody looking over your shoulder to see if a more important person has arrived. “Networking suffers from having a pretty negative image,” he says in today’s podcast. “It conjures up thoughts of insincere, inauthentic people late at night in a bar flicking out business cards.” But if we think about networks in a different way they have a very different image. If you think of networks as communities then maybe we can realise their importance, especially in an age where, through…
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