We interviewed some of the most active and successful connectors in the world—the kind of people who seem to know everyone. In this blog, we’ll distill their strategies, provide tactics you can try out, to grow your career.
Networking Tips
Most people hate networking because they think it involves springing a sales pitch on a total stranger, then having one sprung on you. World-class networkers have a different framing. They rarely approach strangers. Instead, they connect with friends of friends.
Bookshelf
Robin Dunbar is the world-renowned psychologist and author who famously discovered Dunbar's number: how our capacity for friendship is limited to around 150 people. In Friends, he looks at friendship in the round, at the way different types of friendship and family relationships intersect, or at the complex of psychological and behavioural mechanisms that underpin friendships and make them possible - and just how complicated the business of making and keeping friends actually is.