Is ‘networking’ just social climbing by another name? Is social climbing always a bad thing?
Networking as social climbing, discuss-
BBC News – A Point of View: Is social climbing always a bad thing?.
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FT Guide to Business Networking- Book Review
In summary- The book’s great buy it now.
Here’s another book that I’d like to have written. I’d put ‘The FT Guide to Business Networking’ by Heather Townsend alongside the irritatingly comprehensive ‘Beyond Bullet Points’ by Cliff Atkinson- Reviewed here, in the ‘Oh my God, there really are people as structured, efficient, and focused as this, surely I could learn something from them…’ part of my library.
Outrage in the Sunday Telegraph- Professionalism emerges in the UK Civil Service
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A Brilliant Speech- the truth told simply
I was a guest speaker at ‘Inside & Out’ yesterday. It was a networking event for London-based banks as a part of their diversity efforts. Its intention is simple. To recruit brilliant people, who happen to be gay, lesbian, bisexual or trans-gender into the banking industry. Why? Because they want great people, whatever their sexuality….