Today on her Speechwriter-Ghostwriter blog Jane Genova superficially posted about Networking – so many victims of bad career advice. She began by whining:
“In good career times and bad career times, the supposed
experts tell professionals to network. That simplistic advice is often useless.
It can be counterproductive – positioning and packaging the eager networkers as
pests or worse.
….Until parties have something to trade, they better not
approach the network.
….Takeaway: Beware of off-the-shelf career advice. Each
professional’s situation is unique.”
That’s just carping – complaining about what is wrong
without suggesting a useful alternative. For almost two decades the pay-it-forward
alternative to networking has been netweaving. I blogged about it in a December
28, 2014 post titled Netweaving versus just networking.
Brad Gruber also had an article at LinkedIn Pulse on April 22,
2016 titled Move over traditional networking – make way for netweaving.
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